On “a poetry thought in language”. Towards a New Avantgard in the Spanish poetry?

Abstract

In the last decade, a change can be perceived in Spanish poetics, after the long hegemony of realistic or figurative poetry. Even if we are still long from seeing “the poetry of experience” being challenged, there are some signs that the disrepute of the Avantgarde will be soon a thing of the past. There is a more solid reading of Latin-American poets and other national traditions. Many young poets, without forming a group, are questioning the language, a move which comes along with a centrality of body in their works. In this paper we try to describe the main characteristics of some of the most valuable young Spanish poets, isolating some of their important traits, such as the belief in an oracular voice of body, the dissolution in polyphony and an increasing presence of the political.