Presentation of the book “Sonatinas del Umbral. Philosophical poems

Presentation of the book “Sonatinas del Umbral. Philosophical poems

• Palacio García, Irarrázaval 4280, Ñuñoa.
• Wednesday, April 17 – 7:00 p.m.

The Ñuñoa Cultural Corporation and FIP (International Poetry Festival) will carry out this launch.

On the occasion, the new publication will be presented by the writer Montserrat Martorell, the philosopher Martin Hopenhayn and the poet and editor Javier Llaxacondor.

“Sonatinas of the Threshold. Philosophical Poems” is a book of poetry about the emotion and resonance of words, containing within it the author’s fascination with the beauty of the world, mysteries and big questions. Unlike his first poetic work 40 years ago (which was an incursion into various avenues of experimental writing), his current work is much plainer in the use of language, even classical, reaching the purification of haiku. It is divided into four parts: the first, “Thresholds,” contains intuitions and metaphysical openings to the mysteries of life and death; the second, “Breaks”, the verb becomes an instrument of indignation and emotional confirmations of violence and injustice in the world; the third “Brotes” gives rise to the simplicity and instantaneity of haikus and short formulas; and the fourth, “The Living”, is a passionate immersion in ecology, from the emergence of life to its superabundance, so threatened today.

By the way, the philosopher Martín Hopenhayn says in the prologue: “which, in my opinion, gives full meaning to subtitling Daniel’s poetic work “philosophical poems.” First of all, theirs are philosophical poems because they take lyrical language to a place where they make us look, or look at ourselves, as if for the first time, with amazement at what has always been there, and that now, from this poetic perspective -philosophical, it becomes palpable to us. Astonishment: the hallmark of the philosopher in the original sense and the poet in the general sense. In the poem both merge” and continues “Daniel is also a musician, with a lifetime as a performer, international concert pianist on transverse flute and composer. Hence his poetics convey the centrality of cadence, the rigor placed in the game of rhythm, the cascading fall of the poem from its beginning to its end, the sonority that combines what is said and how it is said.

About the Author

Daniel Ramírez is a philosopher, musician and writer. He has a doctorate in Ethics and Political Philosophy from the Paris-Sorbonne University, a master’s degree in Philosophy of Art from the University of Paris-I and a degree in Philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Music composer and international concert performer on transverse flute, graduated from the Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris, first prize at the Paris Conservatories. Lecturer, pioneer of philosophical cafés in France, creator of “cine-philo” in Paris; He has worked in Russia, Japan, Cuba and various European countries, both in music and philosophy. Founder of the Forum Philosophique of Paris, consultant for Amnesty International, Médecins du Monde and Emmaus Foundation, professor of philosophy at the CIFPR (France).

He writes for El Periodista and El Desconcert and is regularly invited to Puerto de Ideas in Valparaíso for philosophical coffees and talks. He is the animator of the PUC extension cycle, “Philosophy of conscious living”. He is a specialist in contemporary thought, cultural diversity, philosophies of ecology and animal ethics. He is a student of the wisdom and spirituality of the East and West, of art, science and history; He practices meditation, yoga and Zen archery. His poems have been translated into French and Romanian and his articles into English. Author active in ideas related to the constitutional process of Chile – ecology, ethics, and political theory.

Published books: Poems and Counterpoems (Santiago, Minga, 1984), La vie at-elle un sens? (Pleins-Feux, France, 2000), Manifesto for the Future Society. A new political philosophy (Santiago, Catalonia, 2020), Alphabet to change the world, co-aut. Federica Matta (We Still Believe in Dreams, 2021), The secret calligraphy of lives. Stories (Santiago, RIL, 2022).