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A man who gives name to a town: José Martínez Giménez "Lali".
"Writing is the deepest way to read life"
(Francisco Threshold)
For almost two decades I have known José Martínez Giménez "Lali".
Pepe is one of those endearing men who are at the same time tireless and active who give their own name to a town like Las Torres de Cotillas.
As a friend of yours I am going to start talking about Pepe as a person.
The talent, the nobility, the generosity, the tolerance and the discretion are virtues that portray the being of this self-made writer whose vocation leads him to the good port of a formation of exquisite style, of successful ways of articulating life through of creativity.
To this prolific, versatile writer of vast cultural background and with an enormous production of verse and prose creations behind him we can consider him as a vate, honoring that phrase that Vicente Aleixandre pronounced when he said that "poetry is communication, something that It serves to talk with other men. "
And it is that Pepe is a spiritual author, dense, transcendent, who drinks with anxiety from a traditional lyric songbook, ballads or anonymous letrilla that gives as a decant a writer of great finesse and extraordinary lyrical flavor, expression ardent and luminous, diverse and multiform .
Simplicity, austerity, emotion, intensity, joy, lightness, music, profound and irrepressible strength of the soul, ... all are ingredients that bring the reader the literary food of Pepe.
In conversation with our beloved literary critic Maria Angeles Moragues, "Lali" commented that "the illusion, although life teaches you more things, should never be lost" and that, says this poet of full nature, "people with decision He usually does things. "
We are before an author who, along with profound poems and accurate prose, also puts into dance his passions and theatrical knowledge, recreating with glow the themes of life itself, all said with exquisite unction and grace, in correspondence with an impetus that bursts into any fragrant bouquet of his creations which essence of lyricism transposed of honey extracted from flowers.
It is so for Pepe Martínez literature is a vitalist commitment and in his diverse work, broad themes that employs in stanzas and narrations, this admirable writer expresses everything that surrounds his existence, both in the first person, describing emotions, sensations, experiences , as a spectator of a world where his singing to problems, inequalities, sufferings, the utopia that must descend to the ground of reality is a prayer as a spell of those blights or sleeplessness that grips us.
Works like "Hawks, hidalgos and water" that has just been reissued follow this suggestive pattern that well defines what "Lali" writes;
They trace a cosmogony that is articulated on three struts of matter and space: man, earth and water, a triad of constants that speak very clearly of the expressive power of this pulpit-cradle tower.
We are before a history embraced to the very work of man, constructing successive images of the daily being surrounded by life.
"Hawks, hidalgos and water" is communication from soul to soul, the man with the natural environment that surrounds him, of struggle for survival, of overcoming, of embrace to the liquid element that also molds the personality of a people and its people to Throughout centuries of shared history, succession from river to source, well, effervescence of humidity as a breath of vital pulse, communion of worries and feelings, in a word, that knows how to decipher the constant encouragement of Pepe at the time of writing.
As its author affirms, the book has been conceived so that it is read in several ways and also so that it can be interpreted and it obtains it from stanzas that capture the struggle of a people for their future, a succession of facts, milestones, experiences and information Exits of the meticulous magín of a researcher full of illusion, delivery and precision.
The coming-out of "Halcones, hidalgos y agua" was one of those satisfying events that I had the prologue pride and where the poet Pepe also acts as historian and the chronicle sings, recites, transmits with the pulse of the vibrant verb, the that distills, composes and expresses this admirable Torreño which has also put not a little effort, tenacity and enthusiasm for locating the folklore, traditions, culture and the marks of distinction of our land in the place that corresponds to it.
This from his work as a promoter, for example, the most veteran Peña Huertana Torrena, "L'Almamorra", a harmonious human group that has taken to many corners of the Spanish and international geography the supreme value of our roots and identity murcianas without forgetting their wake in passionary brotherhoods, festive collectives, ...
All this collection, together with its idiosyncrasies, make Pepe a popular figure that goes beyond local and regional limits to enter into the national context.
The wise man said that "the more one enters the human heart to discover the truth, the more true poetry is found".
That is what many of us experience when we read the work of Pepe Martínez Giménez.
But, beyond its undoubted literary category, Pepe stands out for its human quality.
It is a unique tower, an institution in the rhythm of the life of the municipality.
He has a great personality, generous and helpful as anyone, of deep religious and human convictions.
His good work, his ability to create, his sense of humor, his optimism are characteristic aspects of a man who is truly appreciated.
In these times that run muddy with devalued principles, Pepe is an example of absolute values, of clean soul and honest, pure execution.
Receive, friend, these words as a gratitude for everything you move.
Because people like you make us see this world in another way, with the best effluvia that distills the music of your verses, the ideals of your prose.
Thank you very much once again for being what you are and for doing what you do, friend.
Juan José Ruiz Moñino
Source: Juan José Ruiz Moñino
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