The Critical Poem : Borges, Paz, and Other Language-Centered Poets in Latin America
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In this book, scholar Thorpe Running shows that a skeptical approach to both language and poetry places eight poets from three countries in Latin America within a strain of poetry prefigured by Stephane Mallarme. Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Juarroz, Alejandra Pizarnik, Alberto Girri, Juan Luis Martinez, Gonzalo Millan, and David Huerta span three different generations. In addition to their age and geographical differences, their poetry bears no obvious similarities. All eight, however, are poetas pensantes, or thinking poets, and underlying the work of these probing writers is the disturbing question: Does language do what it is supposed to do? The answer is negative for all these poets who see their poems as being made up of words that don't work.
ISBN
9780838753194
Publication Date
1996
Publisher
Bucknell University Press ; Associated University Press
City
Lewisburg ; London & Cranbury, NJ
Disciplines
Latin American Literature
Recommended Citation
Running, Thorpe. The Critical Poem: Borges, Paz, and Other Language-Centered Poets in Latin America. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1996. Print.