Poetry does not stop its march… it is adventurous and the poets who look for it daily in the various territories, sometimes wild, full of weeds that must be uprooted, so that later they can begin to prepare the land for cultivation, know it well. We are always behind like pilgrims paying a lifetime mandate, hounds following that ineffable smell that drives us crazy. It is inside and outside, it is written with the skin, the blood, the bones, with each organ of our body, it is creation and destruction and vice versa, and that process in constant movement produces transformation, and poetry is transformation.
On this occasion I present the esteemed poet Lorenzo González Cabrera, with an outstanding career, one of the founders of the renowned Grupo Fragua, transcendental in the fight for the culture of San Fernando in times of dictatorship. Always close and willing to participate and collaborate in activities or projects related to culture, whether personal or LibreArte.
Lorenzo Gonzalez Cabrera (San Fernando. Chile)
He was born in San Fernando on May 16, 1956. And to the poetic life around the years 1969 -1970, small babblings that were later consolidated in prospectuses such as “Canto de Amor por Cantar” and “Canto de Amor por Amar” , of which some texts saw the light in the publications of the already historic Fragua Literary Workshop, of which he was a founding member.
Published Works:
Blood in the Seed.1979.
New Way.1982.
Sampler.1982.
The Art of Fighting.1985.
Sun Between Mists .1986.
To Break Up Tonight .1988.
Mardrömen har ett slut -The Nightmare Will End- text published in Swedish. 1988
Elegy and hope – poems against impunity. 1988.
These Places. Editorial Trombo Azul. 1990.
Eternal Summer .1990.
DíaLektos .1992.
Kärlek och Manens Sang – Song of Love and Moon – Bilingual. Publishing Fertile Province”. 1992.
The difficult Job of Being. Self-publishing. nineteen ninety six.
Culinary Lyric .1997.
Poetic Art 21st Century .Fragua Editions. 1998.
Verses To Refresh Your Memory. 2001.
Recurrences. 2006.
Dream Winner. 2013.
Ayahuasca Night. April 2019.
His texts have been published in magazines such as:
The Pure Drop. Ramon Diaz Eterovic.
Extramural. Carlos Amador Marchant.
Young America. Rigoberto Heinson.
Written Word. Luis Martinez Fernandez.
Daily Poetry. Elicura Chihuailaf.
Index.
Caballo de Proa and others from the period of the Young Writers Collective.
Tried.
The Bufanoplia, among other later ones.
Diptychs, triptychs, pamphlets and books have been the support of his poetic work.
And in the Poetic Anthology: “Between Spurs and Camellias.” LibreArte Cultural Extension Center. Saint Ferdinand. 2015.
Questions at the end of the road
It seems that at the end of the path
we have arrived
The lights get off
and shine
now that we are here
the question is not
what did we do
to deserve the road?
but vice versa
what did we not do
What brought us here?
we know what to settle
accounts with history
It’s a story that doesn’t tell
But if this is the maze
hidden from things
we will get out of it when things
things are no longer
and that energy that constitutes us
to other spaces and forms moves
there we will continue to be
in other movements
of lights and shadows
that which we did not know how to be before
By: Jorge Albornoz Figueroa
Writer, Cultural Manager
CELA President
