Kochi,
December 15: The Biennale Pavilion in Cabral Yard, Fort Kochi,
reverberated with soulful renditions from legendary Chilean poet Raúl Zurita as
he recited his early work ‘Song for His Disappeared Love’, which is both a
poignant and subtly trenchant response to Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 brutal
military coup in the South American nation.
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| Raúl Zurita reciting his poem at "An Evening of Poetry with Biennale artists" |
He was among six poets
participating in an event, ‘An Evening of Poetry with Biennale Artists’, held
on the sidelines of Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) 2016. Ouyang Jianghe, Sergio
Chejfec, Sharmistha Mohanty, Valerie Mejer Caso and Aleš Šteger were the other
artists who recited their poems during the event.
Ouyang Jianghe, a celebrated
poet from China, started with one of his famous works ‘Taj Mahal Tears’. The
rendition amplified the plight of the Ganga and the Taj Mahal, which is a
strong and vibrant poetic reaction against modernity.
Argentinean poet Chejfec
recited ‘Simple Language’. “We all are immigrants to languages. Every writer
dreams to wield a simple language,” he said.
Mohanty read a poem that was in
tune with curator Sudarshan Shetty’s vision for KMB 2016: ‘Forming in the pupil
of an eye’.
Mejer Caso presented the
nostalgic poem, ‘From the wave the way’, with a hint of regret and longing. She
later recited ‘Of the known and foretold’, which was dedicated to Zurita.
Šteger, who read out excerpts
from an anthology of poetry Book of
things, explained the underlying concept of the objects communicating with
the human beings.
The session was moderated by
Anna Deeny Morales, who also translated the poem by Zurita.
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