Thirsty Lip. Poetry: José G. Alcaraz: Edition, Preliminary Study and Notes

Authors

Ada Aurora Sánchez Peña (ed)
Universidad de Colima
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7195-8708
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53897/0000001UCOL

Keywords:

Poetry, regional literature, biography, literary analysis, history, research

Synopsis

From the tragic figure of the poet from Colima, José G. Alcaraz (1909-1933), who was assassinated at 24 years old outside the primary school where he carried out the role of director, until before Thirsty Lip: Poetry, little had been revealed about the facets of his poetic work and of his biography in general. Despite that in his youth he was a character esteemed for his literary qualities and his presence in the cultural life of the times, his poetic works were left disperse and hidden in regional newspapers and journals, most of them, as the years went by. Hence, it was overly necessary to rescue and edit them as to encourage their re-reading and appreciation among the new generations.

Thirsty Lip: Poetry, whose title comes from a poem by G. Alcaraz, recovers verses written between 1925 and 1933, by who was, also, a standout professor and journalist.

By way of the preliminary study of this book, it is possible to recognize the thematic lines of this young poet, aimed at nostalgic and damaged love, reflecting on death and the contemplation of the scenery and country life. Poetry that is febrile, intense, that evokes a yearning for the loving communion, for words, and the satisfaction of a metaphysical thirst.

Thirsty Lip: Poetry shows the literary vein, luminous, of a talent that was limited, at a young age, by death, and, notwithstanding, avid of finding all types of readers.

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Author Biographies

Ada Aurora Sánchez Peña, Universidad de Colima

Ada Aurora Sánchez Peña has a PhD in Modern Letters from the Universidad Iberoamericana and has published and has published articles of research, chronicle, stories, and poetry. Among other books, she has co-authored Terrena Cruz. Vida y obra de Agustín Santa Cruz and, within the Biblioteca Colima Collection, Agustín Santa Cruz. Obra reunida, with editing and the prologue. She was the coordinator of Hermenéutica y recepción de la obra de arte literaria, Palabra que arde. Griselda Álvarez: vida, política y literatura and Diálogos interdisciplinarios desde las ciencias sociales. She is the compiler of, and wrote the prologue for, Oportet Illum Regnare. Urge que Él reine, poetry by J. Jesús Trujillo, Veintidós poetas de Colima. Parota de sal, antología, as well as Poesía reunida, de María Cristina Pérez Vizcaíno (this last book in collaboration with Vicente Preciado Zacarías).

Likewise, she is the author of Libros a escena. Textos de presentación a obras de géneros diversos, Don Caralampio Caralimpia pasó por aquí, El pequeño Cúrbit, Un deseo como llama urgente and Todo libro es una liebre.

She forms part of the National System for Researchers, and her main lines of research are related to the rescue and study of literature from Colima of the 20th century, and with the analysis of contemporary Mexican authors.

She is a professor-researcher at the Faculty of Letters and Communication of the University of Colima.

José G. Alcaraz, Universidad de Colima

The professor, poet, and journalist known as José G. Alcaraz was born in the city of Colima, Colima, on August 14, 1909, and passed away, tragically, in Comala, Colima, on October 10, 1933. Even though death surprisingly found him in full-fledged youth, he gave a sample, during his brief existence, of a special literary talent and of social concerns that impulse him to participate in journalistic and pedagogic groups at the start of the decade of the 1930’s in the 20th century.
The recently founded Ecos de la Costa newspaper in 1927, was joined by José G. Alcaraz as a collaborator and, after, as chief editor and article writer in the section dedicated to Theater and Cinema. Just like two of his closest friends, writers Agustín Santa Cruz and Juan Macedo López, he decidedly advocated the literary section of Ecos de la Costa, publishing his own works and some written by other authors.
Between 1925 and 1933, G. Alcaraz unveiled his poetic texts, in Ecos de la Costa, as well as in the newspaper from Jalisco, El Informador, as well as in the journals, Cráter, El Costeño, and Claridad, this last one with a pedagogic orientation, founded by him in 1931.
Coming out of the Escuela Preparatoria y Normal del Estado de Colima, the poet was distinguished for defending cultural missions and his active involvement in the artistic and bohemian life of his times. He enjoyed the appreciation of writers of his generation who took care, while it was feasible, of spreading his poetic works which had a particular expressive intensity.
The works of G. Alcaraz, which was disperse for a long time in newspapers and journals, was finally united in the book Thirsty Lip: Poetry, edited and with a prologue by Ada Aurora Sánchez.
At present, two streets, one in the municipality of Comala, and another, in the state capital of Colima, share his name.

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ENTREVISTAS

Entrevistas a Ma. Dolores Márquez Amezcua, Colima, Col., 24 y 30 de diciembre de 2017.

Entrevista a José Arcadio Vázquez, Colima, Col., 15 de mayo de 2011.

Entrevista a Ma. del Refugio Valencia Salazar, por parte de Rubén Jaime Valencia Salazar, Comala, Col., 14 de abril de 2006.

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Book cover with a sober design in pale pink and sepia tones. At the top appears the title “Labio sediento” and the word “Poetry”. Below is the author’s name, José G. Alcaraz, followed by the note “Edition, preliminary study, and notes by Ada Aurora Sánchez”. At the center there is an old photographic portrait of a young man wearing a suit and tie, facing forward. At the bottom appears the publisher “University of Colima”.

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Sánchez Peña, A. A. (2021). Thirsty Lip. Poetry: José G. Alcaraz: Edition, Preliminary Study and Notes. University of Colima. https://doi.org/10.53897/0000001UCOL