First the body and then the book: Voces del extremo. Antología (2012-2016) or how to keep constructing another political imagination against capitalism

Abstract

This article focuses on the political/poetic project of Voces del extremo, specifically on its more ‘young’ components. It describes the way they give continuity to the global project of Voces. For this, the article addresses in the first place the problematization of the concept of “Youth” as a historical category and analyzes the way young poets construct a relationship with that label. Likewise, it carries out a tour through the general and collective proposal of Voces del extremo based on the counterhegemonic approaches that have been taking shape since the late eighties and that respond to a common idea: poetry is related to subjectivity and, therefore, can constitute a vital practice of opposition to capitalism. It is in this general framework that “young” voices are analyzed in their own historical singularity. The article focuses on the last published anthology of the group (2012-2016) and aims to detect in their youngest voices a continuity with Voces’ general poetic project. It aims to reflect, as well, on the the ideological and historical issues that cross the poems of youngest writers of the anthology.