The Critical Poem: Borges, Paz, and Other Language-Centered Poets in Latin America - Hardcover

Runnning, Thorpe

 
9780838753194: The Critical Poem: Borges, Paz, and Other Language-Centered Poets in Latin America
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ISBN 10: 0838753191 ISBN 13: 9780838753194
Publisher: UNKNO, 1996

Synopsis

In this book, scholar Thorpe Running shows that a skeptical approach to both language and poetry places eight poets from three countries in Latin America within a strain of poetry prefigured by Stephane Mallarme.
Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Juarroz, Alejandra Pizarnik, Alberto Girri, Juan Luis Martinez, Gonzalo Millan, and David Huerta span three different generations. In addition to their age and geographical differences, their poetry bears no obvious similarities. All eight, however, are poetas pensantes, or thinking poets, and underlying the work of these probing writers is the disturbing question: Does language do what it is supposed to do? The answer is negative for all these poets who see their poems as being made up of words that don't work.

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About the Author

Thorpe Running is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at St. John's University and College of St. Benedict in Minnesota.

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Publisher
UNKNO
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0838753191
ISBN 13 
9780838753194
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
194

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