Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry

Ben Bollig is Professor of Spanish-American Literature at Oxford University, UK and an editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. His previous books include Néstor Perlongher and Modern Argentine Poetry: Displacement, Exile, Migration. He is the translator of Cristian Aliaga’s The Foreign Passion (Influx Press).

• Introduction. The Lyric and the State.- Chapter 1. Spaces and Circuits of Contemporary Argentine Poetry.- Chapter 2. Martín Gambarotta. Narrative Verse and the Anti-Lyric.- Chapter 3. From Objectivism to a New Epic. The Poetry and Poetic Activism of Sergio Raimondi.- Chapter 4. “Vos y yo estamos acá.” Lyric/Non-Lyric and Public Space in the Poetry of Andi Nachon.- Chapter 5. Lyric Redivivus. Form and Politics in the Poetry of Ezequiel Zaidenwerg.- Chapter 6. A New Maternal Lyric. Marina Yuszczuk’s Madre soltera.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.