Pictured: loretanos travelers in hammocks.
The 18 poems that make up the book Night Guard (published and Iquitos in 1970) are sufficient to locate Pedro del Castillo (Yurimaguas, 1930) in a trend literature outside the Amazon: the tenderness. Poetry clean adjectival rhetoric, his images emerge from the medical utensils and pain of the sick. But its sensitivity is not part of a guilt complex doctor who could explain this emotion, but a rather broad social corpus " misery has a name / and last name in the neighborhood " and "a good day / burst / while the minor / trace / dust on the dust . " His poem Diagnosis of homelessness is a dramatic testimony of understanding and solidarity with human suffering. Not everything is, either, overwhelming loneliness of individual suffering. The doctor poet understands and shares the ups and downs of its own affairs: "How I love / air / mixture of pus and chloroform!". And later: " Here I add / each antipode. / Here I feel life / as is. / Here I am to be! ." Every day is a death duel. Constant pain hardened soul, but poetry redeems. In the end, there is no salvation for anyone. Unlike César Vallejo, the pain is not part of the joy, but the history of the end. Del Castillo then ignores all tenderness, and knowledge of human suffering, rather than illuminate, the defeat. Suicide poem sums up his ultimate vision of the world: "And very late be when understand / that is nearing its final hour / man / incomprehensible / man is killing. "The social drama becomes personal. The die is cast and has been locked doors and windows. It's fate.
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