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On Friday 21, on the occasion of the celebration of International Poetry Day, the Museum Ramon Gaya Murcia organized a day reading to commemorate that date, which this year has had starring the unionense Cegarra writer Maria Salcedo.
The day began with the reading of a poem by our most universal writer by Councilwoman Interior Hall, Maria Dolores Barrionuevo, which followed the reading of other citizens, anonymous and personalities who paid homage to the author unionense reading his poems all day.
Then accompany a review of the life and work of this illustrious unionense.
SALCEDO MARIA CEGARRA
In La Union, November 28, 1899, was born Mary Cegarra Salcedo, the great poet of the region, Ginés Cegarra daughter, dealer, and Filomena Salcedo.
His brothers, Andrew (1894), Ginés and Pepita.
Mary studied with the Carmelite Sisters of Charity Orphan Asylum Miners and completed advanced studies in Perito Mine.
In fact, she was the first woman chemistry expert Spain (later obtained a degree in chemistry).
Here, in the mining town, took Mary a childhood and youth identified by the crisis of mining in the Sierra, as well as the illness of his brother, the writer Andres Salcedo Cegarra.
Prevented by their ailments for years Mary became his personal secretary until his death in 1928.
For a time, Mary had a close friendship with the writer Miguel Hernández.
According to critics, many of the sonnets "The beam that never stops" are devoted to it.
Overturned in behalf of his people, political activity consisted of Mary his term as municipal councilor in La Union.
In 1980 he was given the name Maria Cegarra to Secondary School in La Union.
Mary was not prolific author Cegarra: just four simple poems books, tremendously human, full of emotion.
Despite the years that separate them, we find the thematic and formal unity of the body of work and the conception of his poetic world as a harmonious whole, "My Glass" (1935), "Desvarío and formulas" (1978), " Every day with me "(1986) and" Poems for silence "(posthumous, 1999).
In 1992, the Hon.
The Union City Council approved his appointment as Favorite Daughter of the village.
His death on March 26, 1993, was sentidísima throughout the Region.
At funerals, emocionantísimos and solemn verses famous sonnet where she sang glossed his death.
The Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo will be paid tribute between 18 and 22 October 1993.
There were poets, philosophers, singers, teachers and critics like Antonio Gala, José Agustín Goytisolo, Jaime Siles, Carlos Bousoño, Amancio Prada, Asensio Sáez, among others ... In 1999, the City of La Union erected a bust of the poet Lyceum Square, opposite the center where he taught his brother Andrew.
Poetry full of naked truth, lack of free embellishment, full of depth, purity of feeling and humility.
A sort of Emily Dickinson to the Spanish for its departure from the literary circuit.
However, should put his work saved around localism, in the area of ​​the great contemporary Spanish poetry.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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