The invoked oracle

Poetry by Marcos Ricardo Barnatán

Fragments of the introduction to the invoked oracle, Visor, Madrid, 1984, which can serve as a poetic:

Paul Valéry clearly distinguished between two types of literary works, which are created following the dictates of an established taste and those, on the contrary, tend to create their own public. It is evident that the poems that follow are decisively framed in the second section, which is undoubtedly the most risky, since there is always a perilous danger of misunderstanding and lack of applause. [...]

I must first confess my faith in the magical power of language, the cornerstone of all work that seeks to overcome that literality that caused so much damage and causes poetry. The word is not a mere succession of letters that respond to a limited combinatorial subject to vulgar usage. In each word there is an enigma, a chain towards the origin that is exemplified in the perplexity of the etymologies and another to the future that we are given by those creators who throw them with value to new meanings. [...]

In Arcana Major [poems published in 1973] as in previous and later books, countless Biblical allusions plague my poems, if not kabbalistic linked to the teachings of Jewish tradition or simply mythical or literary. They are the natural support of thought, never a vain aesthetic support - beauty will arise, if it arises, by direct emanation of language. [...]

wiki