Patricia Camacho Quintos presents visions and moments

Publish your most recent poetry book, Visions and moments (Editions of Lily), it was a relief For its author, Patricia Camacho Quintos, after loading with the silence Tax, with the desire to tell your story, for so many decades. I had that personal doubt with myselfadmit.

Camacho Quintos suffers from schizophrenia since childhood, Condition, not illness, which did not know until that moment in Chiapas. Trying to adapt to society was a long process, with many difficulties and effort to continue writing. Making the floor for me is a privilege, a duty, a joy, and I could not leave it. It also gives identity and dignity. I needed to exercise my writing, have identity and claim my dignity.

From 1991 until 2023, Camacho Quintos was a member of the National Documentation, Documentation and Information Center of the José Limón Dance. Ensures, even: Dance saved my life. I owe life to the dancersPoetry arose Between curtains of my professional work.

Visions and moments constitutes an act of a lot of courage what I had been pushing and pushing until I felt free labor, when I retire and find time, space and mood to do so. I had already referred to this story to tell in the poems With the barefoot (2019).

The process was long and not easy. “When he gave me a cerebral infarction during the pandemic in 2021 he wrote my book From the academy to table dance: The dance of the tube and its contextsand I advocated to finish it with a lot of difficulty. At the same time I started taking a poetry workshop in line with Óscar Oliva. I made so much effort with the readings and when deepening my way of writing, which I relapsed. The teacher insisted that he would do the brain reconnection again, to carry a notebook. I listened to everything that told me and when I realized I already wrote poems. ”

Although Oliva stopped giving his workshop, Camacho Quintos came into contact with another poet: “I presented an online book by José Falconi, whom I did not know personally, but I liked her poetry and her way of treating me.

On the back cover Visions and memories It is read that after several years of poetic drought, Camacho Quintos went to the Falconi workshop, who gave him the image of a fog horse that runs through the city. “The teacher did not find how to unatnate me; then, he asked me to write something that started as follows: ‘A horse of fog travels the city.’ I locked the image of the fog in San Cristóbal and as a thread of the middle I was making the poem, that is, of Curridito, because it touched with its wand of the magician the sensitive point to develop the poem. I turned to the notes and the book was armed.

Between the traditional and the confessional

Visions and memories It consists of a single poem divided into sections or songs. They are different rhythms, different extensions of verse, several tones. They could be like a prose in verse. It is a mixture between the traditional and the confessional. It is a hybrid and that is me. In the poem Camacho Quintos brings together its different sociologist, journalist and dancer’s dance facets: An intermediary without work order. I am everything I have lived and made, thought, quiet. The melting I am in this book.

More than autobiographical, the poem is confessional: Part of my problem was to silence my illness because it is not socially well seen. I do not consider myself a mental sick. I do not believe that schizophrenia is a disease, but a condition. I hope that like the World Health Organization declassified the homosexuality of the disease list, one day doing the same with the mentals. They are conditions of the human being that have been very punished. What is needed is more art to reassure, channel and free them from their own emotional prisons.

Camacho Quintos proposes to do Neighborhood Emotional Property Modules, where people could arrive and practice arts with therapeutic approach instead of so many psychologists. That would be very nice because we would stop spending on so many medicines and torture electrochides.

Visions and moments It is presented today at 6 pm at the Las Ants of the poet’s house (Álvaro Obregón 73, Colonia Roma). It will feature the comments of Beatriz Saavedra, Leticia Luna, José Falconi and Rubén Mendieta as a moderator.