Jomi Garcia Ascot. THE voice of a poet of film children, adhered to the fate of parents or relatives, they had to leave Spain and they were taken to Mexico in 1939 received a Spanish education. A few were revealed as writers. Ramon Xirau, Jacinto Viqueira, Enrique de Rivas, innocent of Burgos, Roberto Ruiz, angel Palerm, Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, Manuel Duran, Tomas Segovia, Jomi Garcia Ascot them are, in the last years of the Decade of the forties, creating and working around a magazine, presence, founded in 1948 and directed by Garcia Ascot, from among those that came out arranged poets. Published many books of these young poets who would come to be known as the Generation of Spanish poets.
Jomi Garcia Ascot had published poems in magazines – and essays in prose – before giving his first book, an autumn in the air, in 1964. They will continue: Be here (1966), having been there (1970), six poems to the margin (1972) and a way to say (1975), if in the books prior to the last, Garcia Ascot, with precise word and content tone explored universal problems in the latter without abandoning the earlier findings, tries to explore your individual self above all. Later he published poems of love lost and found and other poems (1977), personal Anthology: poetry (Premio Xavier Villaurrutia for writers for writers, 1984) and of the time and some people (1986). His poetry shows a machadiana influence.
The film dedicated to the Spaniards killed in exile, exposes in intimate and pathetic tone at the same time the experiences and memories of Gabriela (Maria Luisa Elio), evoking his childhood and the sudden irruption of war Spanish in his life, at the age of seven. Recreating the subjectivity of some fragmentary perceptions (the father’s sudden disappearance, leak through a forest from the nationalist Spain to the Republican, the news of the execution of the father, the arrival of the family to the South of France and exile to Mexico). In the empty balcony won the critics prize at the Locarno Festival and the Giano d gold at the Festival on Latin American cinema of Sestri – lift. Garcia Gasco could not prolong this valuable experience and was forced to work here as a Director of commercials. The Colombian Nobel Gabriel Garcia Marquez devoted his most recognized novel internationally one hundred years of solitude to marriage, with this simple dedication: A. Jomi Garcia Ascot and Maria Luisa Elio. Garcia Ascot also published several essays: Roger von Gunten (1978), Erotica.