El Futuro del Pasado (Mar 2010)
The Antinomies of Contemporary Spanish Poetry: José-Miguel Ullán's poetic as dismountage of literary History
Abstract
Contemporary spanish poetry tends to be divided into two big groups: “seventies'poetry” or “Novísima” and “Poetry of experience”. This clasification is due not only to some generalizing studies promoted by the institution, but also to the desire of the poets to create a group in which they can be attached to and in which they are able to differ from the feared “other”. Such dual caracterization has prompted numerous debates over the belonging and appropriateness of those categories, wich remain in the perspectives that are used to approach the phenomenon now a days. In this way, the aesthetic proposal of the poet José-Miguel Ullán, traditionally considered as a member of the generation known as the seventies, can be taken as an example of an author that can't be clasified in any of the mentioned groups, and because of it, as a starting point for a possible revision and dismountage of a history that has been partially told: the history of spanish contemporary poetry.
