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To the Troesma from the middle of
the world
Elegy for Gardel
By Enrique Noboa Arízaga
Poet and jurisconsult born in Cañar in 1921.
Creator of an important poetic production, he was awarded in 1963 with
the Primer Premio (First Prize) at the National Contest of Poetry organized
by the newspaper El Universo of Guayaquil. He is founder of the group
"Madrugada" and his book "Epopeya del pueblo mártir " (1944)
was translated into five languages. Publisher's Note: Recently this
elegy for Gardel was published in July 1989 by "Voz Informativa de Tango
Club", year III, Nº 4. This version has some differences with the
one transcribed above but neither betrays the sense in the composition,
nor alters the total structure of the poem, nor diminishes importance
to Enrique Noboa Arízaga´s extraordinary memory.
Remigio Romero y Coredero (1895-1968) a notable lyrical
Cuenca native of modernist tonality whose poetic work enjoyed popular
recognition. Among his most outstanding works "La romería de
las carabelas" (1931); "Condoricamente" (1933) and "Jesucristo" (1939)
are to be mentioned. He was lawyer, magistrate in the Supreme Court
of Justice of Ecuador and under secretary of Justice in 1928.
He wrote this poem to the great Cuenca-born Remigio
Romero y Cordero in the late 1935 and was published, for the first time,
in the daily paper "El Telégrafo" of Guayaquil, in November in
the same year 1935. Romero y Cordero never included it either in any
book or in any compilation of his poems. The newspaper clipping was
given to me, about the same period, by the Doctor Luis Roberto Chacón
y Rumbea, in Cañar. I was, then, 13 years old. I learnt it by
heart and, trusting my memory, I have recited it many times, on many
occasions, at reunions with friends. This copy was written by heart
as well. Possibly it may have some small mistake and, maybe, the omission
of some quatrain, but it, in no way spoils its total structure. My dear
friend Gonzalo Almeida Urrutia heard me saying it some day. Now he has
requested me to include it in a publication issued by the Embassy of
the Argentine Republic in Quito. I do it with very much pleasure and
as homage to Gardel, whom I admired in my teen years, and to the great
poet Romero y Cordero whom I remember with love and admiration.
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"To the Troesma from the middle
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