La crítica editada. Juan María Gutiérrez y la América poética

La aparición de la América poética -primera colección de poesía hispanoamericana- entre febrero de 1846 y junio de 1847, constituyó un evento singular para la cultura letrada latinoamericana. En efecto, la antología configuró por primera vez un mapa americanista de la poesía en lengua hispana, encumbrándose como patrimonio cultural y capital simbólico diferenciado de la cultura española. A su vez, la antología marcó un hito en la producción crítica e historiográfica de Juan María Gutiérrez. Las lecturas de la América poética, en general, estuvieron orientadas a indagar en su capacidad representativa. Este trabajo, en cambio, propone una lectura centrada en la figura de redactor (figura autoral, aunque diferida), y una revisión de las prácticas de edición a partir de las anotaciones manuscritas que realizó Gutiérrez al volumen original, que hoy se conserva en la Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación

Tesoro del parnaso Americano; coleccion de poesias escogidas de los mas illustres poetas de hispano-america.

Mode of access: Internet.

El Jardín.

Subtitle varies.

Nueva colección de monólogos y composiciones para recitar.

Poems and prose.

Lira sacra hispano-americana; o, Selecta collección de poesías religiosas de los mejores autores,

Issued in parts.

Antología poética hispano-americana; con notas biográficas y críticas ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Antología de poetas hispano-americanos publicada por la Real academia española.

Introductions published under title: Historia de la poesia hispano-americana, Madrid, 1911-13. (2 v.)

Spanish America in song and story, selections representing Hispano-American letters from the conquest to the present day,

Mode of access: Internet.

The Young lady's book of elegant poetry : comprising selections from the works of British and American poets /

Cover title: Young lady's book of poetry.

Poetry explication; a checklist of interpretation since 1925 of British and American poems past and present,

Mode of access: Internet.

Pictorial history of our war with Spain for Cuba's freedom : a thrilling account of the land and naval operations of American soldiers and sailors in our war with Spain, and the heroic struggles of Cuban patriots against Spanish tyranny, including a description and history of Cuba, Spain, Philippine Islands, our army and navy, fighting strength, coast defenses, and our relations with other nations, etc., etc. /

Mode of access: Internet.

Alberto Girri, or poetry as hermeneutic reason

One of the main factors that makes the poetry of the Argentine Alberto Girri (1919–1991) a whole world of its own is my argument that in a fragmentary world like the present, poets search for a formal integrity which in the act of reading creates not only their own inner world but also the readers'. It is important to insist on this turning point in which most of the Symbolist work is circumscribed. Later, this would be of capital importance for the avant-garde as well as for the post-avant-garde: Mallarmé's Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard would make poetry something absolutely modern. An original distribution of the white and black opened a new space for the text, shifting the then dominant phonocentrism. My close reading of this author as well as the given theoretical frame avoids the failure into an instrumental use either of the page or of the writing but ignoring physical reciprocity. What follows is, that this “shift” privileged heightened vision over audition of the “musical score”. Thus, an intense materialization of the language is achieved that increases the anonymity of the text. ^ Following this new arrangement of words, so to speak, Girri's poetic work now drives deeply inside words in order to lend them dignity from meaning. I conclude that the best way to “render” this poetry with religious aim (L. “re-ligare” to bind the fragmented) is by way of the philosophy of language. I also propose that Girri's task as a translator, mainly from English poetry, represented—with Jorge Luis Borges—a paradigmatic shift in the Spanish American horizon which had been under “logocentric” French rule since the time of Independence. This seismic change of perspective in late Modernism and post-Modernism is represented by a radical screening of Romance rhetoric, it was a shift not only over the inherited mother tongue but over his own work which was increasingly moving towards transcendent and/or metaphysical poetry. ^ Therefore, I did find that Girri's poem was constructed as a mirror closely related to that which was represented in the angelological tradition. ^

“Un claror de fuente” : presencia de la lírica española medieval y áurea en la poesía de Ángel Escobar (Cuba, 1957-1997)

Integran este número de la revista ponencias presentadas en Studia Hispanica Medievalia VIII : Actas de las X Jornadas Internacionales de Literatura Española Medieval, 2011, y de Homenaje al Quinto Centenario del Cancionero General de Hernando del Castillo.