Roriz, Portugal - October, 2008

Topic: Research in Psychodrama. International approaches and perspectives
Participants: Gabriela Moita (Portugal) – chair person Galabina Tarashoeva (Bulgaria) Göran Högberg (Sweden) Hannes Krall (Austria) Jose Luis Mesquita(Portugal) Jutta Furst (Austria) Maria Gabriella Nicotra (Italy)
(see Roriz Report)



The portuguese poet Ana Luisa Amaral was there and read her poetry to us. Here's a poem:

GRAMMARS OF LOOKING

Exchanging glances may be an easy task,
but not exchanging eyes

Focused, another point, and in reverse,
in reverse, a new light,
another landscape

As of another blue,
a different glow,
broken in clouds, the sky
in a new color

Exchanging glances may be a trivial task,
exchanging eyes: a new way
of displaying
on a deserted stage (previous illusion):
voyage with no return

— the exchange:
irreversible:
An excess given back
to the space inhabited
the same

Exchanging glances may be a minor task
(The other one:
a new grammar
for love)

Ana Luísa Amaral, “Gramáticas do olhar”, in A Arte de Ser Tigre, Gótica, 2004, transl. Ana Luísa Amaral