| Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015 Contributor(s): Ledesma, Eduardo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438462018 ISBN-13: 9781438462011 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Hispanic American - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 861.009 |
| LCCN: 2016000471 |
| Series: Suny Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.55 lbs) 358 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Jos Juan Tablada (Mexico), Joan Salvat-Papasseit (Catalonia), Clemente Pad n (Uruguay), Fernando Mill n (Spain), D cio Pignatari (Brazil), Ana Mar a 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. |