Excellent work, @josemalavem, decanting Cadena's complex poetry for us.
Two ideas resonate for me: the "route of loss" and the "lonely words", the art of writing becoming its own route of loss.
I wonder if the society of the near future will allow the poets to do their work, to revive language and give it back its meanings.
I see a consistent and fast-moving process of degradation of language, as well as of identity. Individuals keep displayng behaviors that seriously question their mental sanity and the sense that words and action may have in their heads. From political actions or inactions to celebrity inhibriation, young people seem to be unable or unwilling to walk the path of loss, to have a second birth.
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I appreciate your thoughtful reading, @hlezama, as well as your critical and profound commentary. As you well point out, there is a very serious crisis that we don't know how it will end. However, the function of the poet (or all of them), as Cadenas says, in a poem by Memorial is to insist: "The word is not the place of radiance, / but we insist, / we insist, nobody knows why".