"Instrument for measuring the wind", poems by Freddy Ayala Plazarte

Freddy Ayala Plazarte, Ecuadorian poet. Photo by the UASB

Quito.- 'Instruments for measuring the wind & # 39; poems by Freddy Ayala Plazarte will be presented on Thursday, July 12, 2018, at 6:30 pm at the Benjamín Carrión Cultural Center, located between Gral, Ulpiano Páez and Jorge Washington streets, Quito. The presentation of the book will be in charge of the writers Maria Auxiliadora Balladares and Juan Jose Rodinás, in addition, there will be a performance by the poet Juan Carlos Miranda.

The winning book of the Call to Publications 2018 (CEC Núcleo Azuay) addresses the union of two continents through history. The word becomes the path of rediscovering the voices of the past. Instruments to measure the wind, then, it is the symphony where the past and the future become a body with sounds "a symphony in the tiles / they were asking in the temples / for the line that followed the words "

For the poet Rodinás, the book of Ayala Plazarte " … it is as if he had stopped to listen to through a machine retrofutura to the first aedas and singers, but not his singing, but what lies behind sing This mystery that has more to do with the mythical time than with the historical time of the 39, humanity is the subject of this singular and intense book. "

Freddy Ayala Plazarte, besides musicologist, works as a professor at the Central University of Ecuador. He holds a Ph.D. in History and Music Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) and a Master's degree in Visual Arts and Studies from Simon Bolivar Andean University. .

Among his books: My father on the rails by Sumpa (2011), Rebellions on the edge of a symphony (2015), With a manuscript to the horizon (2016). He also published essays on the work of the poet Hugo Mayo, Vientos Paralelos (2015) on literature and Latin American culture and an anthology of young Ecuadorian poetry. He won the Second Prize of the National Poetry Biennale (Ambato, 2011), the Jorge Carrera Andrade National Poetry Prize (2015) and was finalist of the 16th Poetry Competition of the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2016. He presented his poetry in Havana, Madrid, Zaragoza and Buenos Aires. (I)