La Repubblica today, Wednesday, June 16, 2010, we spent the following article ( http://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2010/06/16/news/la_poesia_della_contravuelta-4880429 / ), signed by Sunday CANCA :
"Great success of the competition on the Ecuadorian diaspora. A hundred of papers in the race. The best premium is paid by a copyright exception, Mario Campaña
message of the poet Jorge Enrique Adoum , in Genoa dedicated the first contest of verses of the Ecuadorian diaspora, is trying to be better people. Ecuadorians best, the best Latin American. better person. To this we are inspired by the 66 participants in these three months have to get 97 members unpublished texts in English and Italian. "For three years I and other South American Genoese citizens follow a reading group of modern and contemporary Latin American poetry at the Berio and Cornigliano library, "said Priscila Cujilan , guayaquileña of 37 years, creator of the competition. He adds:" To attend the workshop are children but also adolescents, with a great desire to know the literature of our country and learn to recite the our language. Hence was born the idea for a poetry competition where young people and adults were invited to shape letters in the deepest part of our being, the feelings. By stimulating the self-representation and taking out the distances from the stereotypes. "The award of the competition, which took place in the presence of one of the finest poets of Ecuador, Mario Campaña , host of XVI Festival of Poetry Genoa , has turned into an extraordinary moment of expression of the culture of art, of the meeting and the desire to give voice to participants through their poems. And what poems poignant, intense, heart-warming. Almost all steeped in melancholy veiled, like the text of Gema Lizbeth Toala, 17, ranked first in the young: "Earth beautiful of my dreams / I've seen the birth / with its four regions / all that shine 'Dawn ... A corner of this region is my linda Manabí / my native place ... Every morning I remember the immense blue sky / And my dear, I miss and I think with love / I long for this day back / to my lindo Ecuador . "If the distances are so felt by young people, but one that emerges from the texts is the cultural identity in the diaspora becomes an instrument to get in touch with different cultures, but not by creating conflict generating wealth. With an opening for hope. " Genoa, eternal sailor / suspended by the sea / bow tied to your Apennine / wind your delicate hair. From your strategic point / ground water and mountains and the sea / you saw tear generations / of Italy in search of another port ... Your hope of olive green / is visible today with the rest of us / have made your talented children / people in my temperament processed . Vinicio Rodriguez Vallejo with this text was ranked first in the adult section, and is currently in the process of publishing her first novel. "
