After slogging through 350 pages of Raúl Zurita’s La Vida Nueva I just can’t take any more. It’s 500 pages of the same, poem after poem, rivers crossing oceans, oceans opening, up is down, down is up, rivers love each other, torrents, ice flows, the Andes, I don’t get it! I just don’t get it! [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Zurita Sucks
Posted in Lista on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tulio Mora: Juntos y Revueltos
Posted in Lista on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my post on Canto General, I made the observation that Latin American Socialist poetry tends to conflate the 500 years post conquest into a single narrative of oppression and resistance. Tulio Mora’s poetry follows this tendency. Cementerio General seems to be in part modeled after some of the sections of Canto General: particularly “La [...]
The Cuban Revolution: Two Views
Posted in Lista on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is interesting to read both Nicolás Guillén and Heberto Padilla right next to each other, as here we find two very distinct perspectives on the exact same event. The Cuban Revolution was, to sympathizers in Latin America, a beacon of hope. This is a country right under the nose of the United States which, over the [...]
