Poetry and memory: 6 years without poet Juan Gelman, the man who reinvented the word - The Argentine poet left a close work for the reader, who asks to be read aloud and that expands his sonority beyond the printed text

Juan Gelman was a liberator of poetry. He released the word of his weight ("The weight of the word comes from a stretched skin, fury or sorrow, childhood"). Crossed by Vallejo and Gonzalez Tuñon (there is even some Girondo there in his first violin), his poetry in turn crossed almost all the poets on this side of the world. Its (almost) inevitable imprint is formal liberation, insolent permission, arbitrary conjugations, multiplicity of issues.

6 years without poet Juan Gelman

The vastness of his poetry, the enormity of his work and the fortunate longevity that we celebrate even when he has died, prevents us from thinking about the centralities of the work and forces us to propose openings and looks, suggest readings. While questioning the formal established, which broke the notion of the verse, the stanza, composed an impeccable rhythm, a structure that gave his poetry a unique vitality. Gelman's poetry asks to be read aloud, expands its loudness beyond the printed text. His magic words, his irreverent verbs that are conjugated in new ways, his reinvented sonnets and his false translations, are part of a poetic universe that far exceeds poetry.

Unlike Borges - universal poet - Gelman was a poet of the world. His poetry had earth bodies and death. Work of certain sweats and pains, of bodies charged with politics ("What will it be like to go to bed / in your country from such distant breasts"), you cannot separate the evolution of your own political militancy. The struggles of the workers, of the poor and Latin American militiamen, of the dead companions, the disappearance, the death of their dead mother in pain while he was away, articulate in his work with the powerful and unchanging love present since those first books of the 50s.

The silences left by men like Gelman are those that speak of Truth.

The Municipality dusts the idea of ​​the second bridge: it would be in parallel with Méndez Casariego

The Secretary of Public Works and Services, Carlos García, referred to the project presented in Paraná within the framework of “a series of ideas for flood mitigation works”. This second bridge would be of lower cost than the one contemplated in the executive project promoted by Bahillo on the closure of its last management.

In August 2014, the Municipality, in charge of the then mayor Juan José Bahillo, confirmed the executive project financed by the Federal Investment Council, for the construction of a second bridge. The same, as announced at the time, would triple the capacity of the iconic Méndez Casariego.

The priorities of politics and management and the lack of financing made this idea shipwrecked. Since then, the bridge project for the southern part of the city, near the building of the former Gualeguaychú Fridge, sleeps in a drawer in Paraná. Maybe not even that.

Two years earlier, in August 2012 the architect Marcelo Gianfelici had written in ElDía a very interesting opinion note in which he shared the idea of ​​a second bridge, but in parallel with the current one, leaving it for exclusive pedestrian use.

“The new vehicular bridge must be placed right next to it, adjacent to the north, maintaining the beautiful current image from the entire waterfront and forming a true tourist attraction of a safe and exclusive pedestrian route, without vehicles, a true 'Ponte Vecchio 'gualeguaychuense towards Unzué Park ”, proposed Gianfelici at the time.

Now, the yearning of the second bridge was refloated from the government of Martín Piaggio. In fact, the idea was already presented to Governor Gustavo Bordet. And it was the secretary of Public Works and Services - the only municipal hierarchy official who maintained in his Cabinet the current Mayor - who referred to the issue. He did this Tuesday in ElDía from Cero, where he also spoke of the three priorities (see "The three priority management works that begins") that his secretariat has for the next four years.

"Operationally, we see a saturation in traffic, which worries us," so "we raise a series of ideas for flood mitigation works to Hydraulics. We believe that the second bridge, as an existing bridge protection tool, would be a great benefit. Logically, you have to study it, do the project and evaluate it, ”said the official.

The initiative, which is not yet a project but has the necessary political support, considers the construction of a second bridge, but no longer in the southern area of ​​the waterfront, but next to the Méndez Casariego, which would continue to be enabled for vehicular traffic , in parallel with the new one.

“It would generate a great avenue to Pueblo Belgrano, to the Fiorotto curve. The necessary relievers would be generated by the water that comes from the Gualeguaychú basin. We understand that it would be a work of much lower cost than a large bridge in the southern area, and that is why we see it, in some way, more viable, ”García said about this“ second bridge ”, which would have“ low railings, which would not compete, visually and aesthetically, with Méndez Casariego, who serves functionally. ”

The idea exists. In fact, it was already presented to Governor Gustavo Bordet. As six years ago, it will be the priorities of the policy and the financing capacity that give the green light to the project, or simply remain part of a desire of the city in which, beyond this or that idea, in general The leadership seems to agree.

Last year, during one of Méndez Casariego's repairs

The three priority management works that begin

During 2019, an unusually year crossed by several electoral campaigns, the local opposition questioned the municipal management, among other things, the lack of “substantive works” and questioned the “makeup” that piaggismo presented as “space recovery public". Beyond the crossings, typical of the proselytizing processes, this questioning was answered with some projects that, now, the Secretary of Public Works and Services highlighted as priorities.

•     The beltway of the city is a project accompanied by the Province, which will demand more than 900 million pesos, and will substantially change, above all, the northwest area of ​​Gualeguaychú.
•     The Systematization work of storm drains in the South West area and María Gómez gorge, which "is practically for tender," Garcia said.
•     The last stage of the Sewage Effluent Treatment Plant. A showy little work, but of substantial importance for Gualeguaychú.