Six books that take a look at contemporary Latin American poetry

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the International Poetry Day It is celebrated on March 21st, a date dedicated by UNESCO to highlight this literary genre, considered one of the “most valuable forms of expression and identity and linguistics of humanity”, as the organization mentions. At great moments in history, cultures come to transform the poem “in a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace.”

The first time UNESCO set this date to celebrate poetry was in theirs 30th Paris General Conferencein 1999, with the aim of “supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and promoting the visibility of endangered languages”.

Octavio Paz, in his book The Bow and the Lyre, gives a definition of what poetry is for him:

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“Poetry is knowledge, redemption, power, devotion. An operation capable of changing the world, the poetic activity is revolutionary by nature; spiritual exercise, it is a method of inner liberation.

In the same way, it refers to everything that exists containing many elements for man to see and form as he sees them, and this is also called poetry.

“There is poetry without poems; Landscapes, people and events are mostly poetic; they are poetry without being poems. Well then, when poetry occurs as a condensation of chance, or is a crystallization of forces and circumstances beyond the poet’s creative will, We face the poetic”.

Now, in this century, poetry will reflect many of the elements trying to reach the human part of man, where poets seek the most intimate of existence to give thought to different concepts of life.

In relation to World Poetry Day, we leave you with a list of contemporary Latin American poets.

choose the fire

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This book by Rodolfo Naró enters the most intimate part of love, because in each poem we will find situations to identify with and show the eroticism as another element that man needs to live.

Anna and Hans

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A story and at the same time the disease that Karen Villeda has the language and gender to put everything together in a text that the author saved and that speaks of Anna Knapp, the only patient of Hans Asperger, the scientist who diagnosed this disease thought what he discovered could not occur in women.

Blurred imago mundi

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In this collection of poems, Pura López Colomé uses echo and reverberation as two sources that go into the personal, sensual and intimate part, where there is a “repetition of a tone and “the light persistence of a tone that evoke reality with acute and serious elements in his poetry.

keyless time

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Ida Vitale gives the verses she writes a very special charge, which has to do with the relationship to objects steeped in history, the perception of time and the advent of old age. This poet from Montevideo shows that at 98 years old she remains the youngest poet.

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Argentinian Pedro Mairal’s poetry is uncensored and this is a compilation of texts that brings them together for the first time. He had published them in various media under the pseudonym Ramón Paz, but now he dares to show himself to the world, in addition to an “atomized, expanded and unfiltered self”.

As a flower

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The Colombian anthology that brings together thirty poets dealing with “love and desire, on flora and fauna, on the walls that draw our houses, what they keep inside and what they leave out”.

A book that talks about diversity, sexuality, love and desire, building a network of friendship and a queer community in Colombia through letters.

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