Spaces and Circuits of Contemporary Argentine Poetry

Abstract

Bollig’s opening chapter provides a sketch of some of the many innovative ways in which writers, publishers, and performers of poetry have sought new spaces for their work in contemporary Argentina. Poetry has flourished, in spite—or perhaps because—of political and economic crises. The means by which a poet makes her work public, the themes chosen, and the apparent political role that the poet ascribes to her writing, he argues, often find their corollary in the formal, tonal, and lexical choices made in the poems. Taken together, these features are revealing of certain facets of the given political conjuncture—in particular, the delicate relationship between the state and cultural producers.