The ceremonies of silence

a poetic experience

Abstract

In my poetic experience with The Ceremonies of Silence by Ana Ilce Gómez, many times I have wondered the reasons why I constantly return to the pages of this poems I must confess that few are the Nicaraguan poetry books to which I return with that same passion from the first encounter, reading is as necessary as breathing, but it is a act of love that leads us back to the intimacy of rereading. Of that first experience I had the impression that the ceremonies of silence claimed a poetry that exalted the inner rebellion against the thrilling outside hustle, with this book Ana Ilce Gómez joined that tribe of silent poets like Carlos Martínez Rivas and his lonely Insurrection, Ernesto Mejía Sánchez and Ensalmos y spells, Álvaro Urtecho and his Cantata stupefied, and a little closer, but no less important: Alejandra Sequeira and his Who is waiting for me does not exist, Francisco Ruiz Udiel and that song torn in Somebody He sees me cry in a dream.