FIREPLACE IS WELL THERE WAS 
As " know, I'm in Madrid last Monday. Just turned 36 years old - lteralmente in the air, I came to this land full of wonder of all colors. Here I keep many emotions. Among them, the poet, director, actor and friend Alejandro Aura, which featured the very day his book 12 IS HERE AS WELL within the collection Mexican Calamus, published by Friends of Editorial Calamus and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature at the Instituto Cervantes of Madrid.
Since leaving the airport Benito Juárez in DF, I knew that the first cultural activity would attend this holiday in Spain would be it. Isabel was encouraged to accompany me, and while waiting at the door of Cervantes in Alcalá street, I approached an old acquaintance ... "What a joy Rico, but to -Almost three years have not seen you!". Inside, more familiar faces made me remove the files from the memory and affections. The poet Tomás Segovia and his partner Ma Luisa Capella, always so loving, Henry and Alexander Krauss, just as I landed, Milagros, who was astonished to see me there ... It was as if they simply had not spent years and many things had changed since I went back to Mexico more than two years.
And there was Alexander, left side-groups, right-actor of the table looking with smiling that smile, expectant also I looked . I could not help but remember the first time I sat beside him to read in public in 2001. He had been appointed some time ago director of Mexico Instituto in Spain, an official body to represent the culture and arts of our country abroad. Alexander had been before as director of the Cultural Institute of Mexico City, where he promoted, among many other initiatives, " libroclubes" (book clubs that formed in neighborhoods with donations of volumes, where readings were aloud and other activities aimed to promote a taste for books). Alejandro himself participated in a club called "The Auras" where, sometimes accompanied by other friends read everything for everyone. Now I remember having seen how amazed years ago in Madrid, Alejandro, in a display of virtuosity , read (or should I say "played") in two unforgettable days of work "Pawns of a House" by Sor Juana the soliiito , you !!!... All the fun characters tangle of our Golden Mexican paraded through the voice, face and hands of Alejandro actor-reader who kept us and atentísimos Sometimes parties in our chairs laughing.
WELL HERE IS , was the "third of the afternoon, so we listen carefully to the presentations that preceded it:" In the morning, between the shadow the wind ", by José-Miguel Ullán and" My life with the dog "by Francisco Hernández . But I must confess that at times I was distracted, browsing WELL HERE IS , Kico that had happened to Elizabeth and that I signed up third for taste, even before being read by its author, some lines. An Aura, intimate and simple, transparent, straightforward (but by no means lacking in sympathy in everyday life), he returned to thrill from the paper how last November, when we gave a preview of the book at the opening of a library with his name in Mexico , DF But I needed to hear the living voice reciting his own poetry, so do not read more, to receive it again face to face, by word of mouth, hand to eye, wonderment amazement . July Trujillo made a beautiful presentation of Alexander and his book, which worth reading. Here is the link for the look:
At one point in his speech, Trujillo confessed his love for the blog of Alexander, taking a roll of cardboard extended over your head with the name well clarito : http://alejandroaura.blogspot.com I loved the detail, as the solemnity took a little bit, starting with apartments above my head.
There, I get excited just before the start of the intervention Ale ... and I think "this, as we , is on course for the blog and I approach, as I discreetly take a picture on the side where was Alexander ... but I caught ... just when did "click" (and I turn the flash off to avoid being "cantoso") He turned to me with wide smile and said "llegaastee!" and I (inside) "earth swallow me!" I must have put a thousand colors, but was "worse" when a second after Alexander explained: "This is Marcelo Galván. It's those who say the time and place and you say` I'm on another continent, but if I can get 'And coming!. Thanks for being here. " And I embarrassed, but very excited for the love of Alexander to a server, so evident in "banking site," as he called the hall where we were, "Thank you."
And I can not to say "thanks" for reading Alexander's book, the words of the author and the way in which he says, are still-days-a balm of love of life and joy in the memory of those two brief encounters that both City and Madrid have lived. Yesterday, in his blog, mentioned the story with enthusiasm, it flatters me and what moves me. From here, in Madrid, where he is so good, excited and go hug a tribute to Alejandro Aura and his new book.
not miss IS WELL HERE. Alejandro says that stakeholders in Spain you can go to the bookstore Hyperion, because that Ernesto Lumbreras said, the responsible editor, who had left copies for sale.
well worth!
