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White light : the poetry of Alberto Blanco / Ronald J. Friis.
LIBRA PQ7298.12.L27 Z67 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friis, Ronald J., author.
- Series:
- Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blanco, Alberto, 1951---Criticism and interpretation.
- Blanco, Alberto.
- Blanco, Alberto, 1951---Knowledge and learning.
- Blanco, Alberto, 1951-.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 282 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco examines the interplay of complementary images and concepts in the award-winning Mexican writer's cycle of poems from 1979 to 2018. Blanco's poetic trilogy A la luz de siempre is characterized by its broad range of form and subject and by the poet's own eclectic background as a chemist, maker of collages, and musician. Blanco speaks the language of the visual arts, science, mathematics, music, and philosophy, and creates work with deep interdisciplinary roots. This book explores how polarities such as space and place, reading and writing, sound and silence, visual and verbal representation, and faith and doubt are woven through A la luz de siempre. These complements reveal how Blanco's poetry, like the phenomenon of white light, embraces paradox and transforms into something more than the sum of its disparate and polychromatic parts"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Alberto Blanco
- The Poems
- Cycles
- Polarities
- White Light
- 1. Image
- Collage
- Absence and Negation
- Poesia visual
- "Donner a voir"
- Ekphrasis
- The Constellation of the Rose
- 2. Space
- The Exergue Effect
- Time and Place Stamps
- Travel
- "Mapas"
- Montage and Movie Stars
- Three Spatial Strategies for Cuenta de los guias
- 3. Sound
- Sister Arts and Synesthesia
- Tempo, Rhythm, and Rhyme
- Musical Paratexts
- Silence
- 4. Texture
- Reading and Writing Writers
- Writing Readers
- Writing Writing
- Hemispheres
- Taijitu
- The Third Half
- 5. Metaphysics
- Scientific Methods
- Observer Effects
- Crisis
- Lessons in Geometry
- Aura
- Genesis
- Faith
- Coda: Flight.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781684483464
- 1684483468
- 9781684483457
- 168448345X
- OCLC:
- 1242017675
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