Radical poetry : aesthetics, politics, technology, and the Ibero-American avant-gardes, 1900-2015 / Eduardo Ledesma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ledesma, Eduardo, 1972- author.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental poetry, Latin American--History and criticism.

Experimental poetry, Latin American.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin America.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Modernism (Literature)--Latin America.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2016.

Summary:

With a broad geographic and linguistic sweep covering more than one hundred years of poetry, this book investigates the relationships between and among technology, aesthetics, and politics in Ibero-American experimental poetry. Eduardo Ledesma analyzes visual, concrete, kinetic, and digital poetry that questions what the "literary" means, what constitutes poetry, and how, if at all, visual and verbal arts should be differentiated. Radical Poetry examines how poets use the latest technologies (cinematography, radio, television, and software) to create poetry that self-consciously interrogates its own form, through close alliances with conceptual and abstract art, performance, photography, film, and new media. To do so, Ledesma draws on pertinent theories of metaphor, affect, time, space, iconicity, and cybernetics. Ledesma shows how José Juan Tablada (Mexico), Joan Salvat-Papasseit (Catalonia), Clemente Padín (Uruguay), Fernando Millán (Spain), Décio Pignatari (Brazil), Ana María Uribe (Argentina), and others turn words, machines, and, more recently, the digital into flesh, making word-objects "come alive" by assembling text to act and seem human, whether on the page, on walls, or on screens.

Contents:

Introduction: An overview

The historical avant-gardes: futurist metaphors

The sixties neo-avant-gardes: a political turn

Digital poetry and metaphor's reprise

Modernisms on the move: mechanic, kinetic, cinematic

Letters and lettrism: deconstructing the new vanguards

Latin American digital poetry: animated embodiment

Modernismo: cannibalistic appropriation and advertisement

Concrete aesthetics: abstraction, mass media, and ideology

Luso-Brazilian e-poetry and performance

Conclusion: Toward a radical aesthetics?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438462028

1438462026