Carlos Edmund of Ory

Carlos Edmundo de Ory (Cádiz, Spain, April 27, 1923 - Thézy-Glimont, Picardía, France, November 11, 2010) was a Spanish poet, essayist, epigram writer and translator., main representative of postismo. He was the son of the modernist poet Eduardo de Ory.

Biography

He was the son of the modernist poet, journalist, literary critic and consul Eduardo de Ory and Josefina Domínguez de Alcahud, grandson of the first class sea captain (rear admiral) Alejandro de Ory y García and Francisca de Paula of Seville, and great-grandson of progressive senator Salvador María de Ory García-Lizón.

His most personal work came after he moved to Madrid in 1942 from his native Cádiz. There, together with Eduardo Chicharro Briones and Silvano Sernesi, he founded Postismo. A selection of poems from this period appeared in 1945 under the title Versos de pronto.

In 1951 a new phase began in his poetry with the publication of the Introrealist manifesto. In it he advocated the creation of an art that is a manifestation of the internal reality of man, expressed in a language that has to emerge as an invention from mysterious states of consciousness. In 1955 he moved to France. In 1957 his only daughter, Solveig de Ory, was born. In 1968 he created the APO (Atelier de Poésie Ouverte). A third stage then begins, in which poetic work is understood as collective creation.

He also wrote several books of prose stories collected in 2001 under the name "Tales without fairies" and the novel Mephiboseph in Onou.

As he himself said after the publication of his anthology Música de lobo (2003), his work has two main themes:

The only thing that fascinates me is love and pain. As a man, I have to say that everything is summed up in that, in the love of human beings, to nature, to music, to poetry; and in the pain of the vision that reveals the verses of Alfonsina Storni: «Muchedumbre de color, / million circumcised, / houses of fifty stories / and pain, pain, pain...». Because the years go by and when it comes to my age, it takes with great weight an ever wider tent of very dear dead.

In 2006 he received the Honorary Title of "Favourite Son of Andalusia", granted by the Junta de Andalucía.

On November 6, 2007, he left a message in the Caja de las Letras at the Instituto Cervantes that will not open until 2022.

He died of leukemia on November 11, 2010 in the French town of Thézy-Glimont, Picardy, where he lived, at the age of 87. The Foundation that bears his name and that Carlos Edmundo de Ory had prepared before His death with the Cádiz City Council is constituted by his transfer to the city of his personal library, his manuscripts, correspondence, archives and art collection. It is made up of 8,394 books and magazines, 235 works of art and various belongings: from posters and drawings to collections of African art and books inherited from his father. The Carlos Edmundo de Ory Foundation was inaugurated in 2011 at the Reina Sofía Cultural Center in Cádiz, one step away from his birthplace.

Outstanding works

• The sonnets (Taurus, 1963)
• Poetry 1945-1969 (Edhasa, 1970)
• Technical and crying (Llibres de Sinera, 1971)
• Read without fear (National Editor, 1976)
• Metanoia (Cátedra, 1978)
• Energeia (Poetry 1940-1977) (Plaza ' Janés, 1978)
• The forbidden flute (Zero, 1979)
• Miserable tenderness. Cabaña (Hiperion, 1981)
• Aerolitos (Observatory, 1985)
• Soneto alive (Anthropos, 1988)
• Nights Dantescas (El Toro de Barro, 2000)
• Melancholy (Igitur, 2003)
• Wolf music (Poetic anthology 1941-2001) (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2003)
• Full air carriers (Ed. Firmamento, 2022) (Includes 254 Unpublished Aerolytes)

Honorary Distinctions

He has a roundabout with his name, and a statue in the Alameda Apodaca (in which the foundation that bears his name collaborated)

• Predilect Son of the Province of Cadiz (2003)

Dedicated works

In 2018 a biography of his person was published