Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry

Abstract

"This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of 'lyric' and 'state' as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how poems come to speak to us about politics. Drawing on concepts from contemporary literary theory, this striking study combines textual analysis with historical research to shed light on the ways in which new modes of circulation help to shape poetry today."--Publisher description. Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: The Lyric and the State; The Lyric and the State; Poetry and Public Space; Methodologies; Overview; Notes; Spaces and Circuits of Contemporary Argentine Poetry; Notes; Martín Gambarotta: Narrative Verse and the Anti-Lyric; Early Works; Punctum; Seudo+Dubitación; Rodríguez in Africa; Recent Works; Notes; From Objectivism to a New Epic: The Poetry and Poetic Activism of Sergio Raimondi; Early Works; Civil Poetry; Cultural Work; Toward a Critical Dictionary; Notes; "Vos y yo estamos acá." Lyric/Non-Lyric and Public Space in the Poetry of Andi Nachon. Early PoemsCrossing Frontiers; Urban Wandering; Public Space; Alternative Culture in Poetry; Notes; Lyric Redivivus: Form and Politics in the Poetry of Ezequiel Zaidenwerg; Zaidenwerg and the New Lyric; Lyric Poetry Is (Un)Dead; Notes; A New Maternal Lyric: Marina Yuszczuk's Madre soltera; Structure and Feeling; Confession and Retraction; Writing Labor: From Confession to Eroticism to the Monstrous; Motherhood, Law, and Work; Notes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.