Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Sep 2018)
The Hispamérica poets have turned 45
Abstract
Between the Nicaraguan poet Roberto Vargas (1941) and the Colombian writer Darío Jaramillo Agudelo (1947) there is room for many poets. Vargas is the author of “Letter/poem for Ernesto Cardenal”, first poem appeared in Hispamérica (No. 2, 1972) and Jaramillo of “Encounters” (No. 135, 2017), a poem with which the journal reaches its 45 years of existence. This study focuses on how the journal traces a Latin American poetic geography that accommodates a diversity of voices, from older poets to the youngest, from neo-baroque to Chicano, from revolutionaries to indigenous poets, from political exiles to Judeo-Latin American poets. The journal has become a space for the dissemination and discussion of recognized poetics and other lesser-known ones; its character is inclusive, so it is worth highlighting the presence of women writers from many countries and various eras. Therefore, Hispamérica constitutes a visionary project within the Latin American critical and literary panorama throughout an era that goes from the political effervescence of the 70s, which marked so many poetics, to the neoliberal crisis, which continues to make them.
