During the night of last Thursday, the death of the editor, poet and cultural promoter from New Leon was reported. Arnulfo Vigil in the hospital of the city where he was born and lived, Montemorelos, Nuevo León. The founder of the Trade magazine He was 67 years old.
Through social media, word spread that Vigil’s pen had been put to rest forever. The Freedom Federation of One People AC was the first to offer her condolences and mourn the death of the author of foil butterflies through an obituary signed by the coordinator and the authority of the organization.
The poet was a beacon of cultural promotion not only locally, but also nationally. It is likely that from Oficio, from the offices of this magazine that were at the same time his home and also the printing press of the magazine and the imprint of the publishing house that bears the same name, he has catapulted countless authors from all over the world. ages. Not for nothing does the label’s catalog accumulate more than 600 titles.
After a hasty attempt to become a priest as a teenager, Vigil moved to Monterey to study philosophy at the Regiomontana University and at the Instituto Superior de Occident. Later, after he entered the world of journalism, he founded Job. Actually on a couple of occasions, since the first of them disappeared soon, after the publication of three issues.
As soon as the news of his death broke, various personalities from culture, literature and journalism spoke out about it. “The weird cat,” a cultural journalist from Monterrey, wrote:
“At dawn among the nothingness of a trip to and from my destination, I found out about the death of Arnulfo Vigil, a chingon (sic), one of those from before, one of those who print books and revolutions. A man with a job. Have a good trip. Nostalgia for punk, teacher.”
For his part, the writer Pedro de Isla also dedicated a few words to him, among which he names him “a reference in the culture of Nuevo León and the north of the country”.
Impact on letters
His loss is such for the literature and culture of the north of the country not only because of his material significance, but because of everything that was capable of impacting the lives of the people who knew him or accompanied him during his transit on land.
Not in vain the storyteller Carlos Velazquez He says he learned from him that Writing is, above all, an exercise of the will.
The latter, author of The Black Pig of Pink Literature, says that Vigil’s poetry draws from Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and Dylan, say of the beatniks and their successors. That is to say: a countercultural being.
Which, in the words of Velázquez, contradicts today’s intellectual in Mexico. It will probably always be like this. There will never again be one like Arnulfo Vigil.
Much of his work can be found with Mantis Editors.
By: Demian García
