THE DIMENSIONS OF MEMORY. THE POETRY OF ARCADIO PARDO

"It may not even sound and I hear it, its plus ultra sound that is not." (Of the Nature of Oblivion) ​​Approaching the poetry of Arcadio Pardo is like opening a window and discovering the wonder of the world on the horizon through writing powerful in its diction, profound in its suggestions, luminous in its imagery. His ability to capture such sensoriality is the fruit of an innate artistic personality that merges his character as a genuine historian and lucid professor. Both traits—creation and cultural content—infuse his work with an essential aroma: the rhythmic instinct and the testimonial support of arguments that—through the action of words—are transformed into knowledge, surprise, and poetic wisdom. Arcadio Pardo, one of his editors tells us, is my older brother, the older brother of us all, the one who from his astonishing reverie constructs for us an unlimited time, the unique Time, in which we can recover the experience of all time, mitigate for moments the weight of the ephemeral and ponder the happy contiguity of reality and beyond