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Antonio Cisneros: Poesia Reunida
Antonio Cisneros es el poeta peruano más influyente en el ámbito de nuestra lengua y su poesía cautiva en todas partes. Escrita sobre la actualidad de su motivo o sobre la inmediatez de su emoción, resuena, sin embargo, más adentro: en la tradición poética, a la que reescribe; y en el pensar poético, que agudiza. A veces sobre lo más casual, sin desdeñar nada de lo vivo, Cisneros levanta una escena poética que supone ironía, desasosiego, empatía, sensibilidad y sentido crítico. Sus poemas remiten a la poesía latina, pero también a la dicción poética post-Pound; se remontan a los clásicos castellanos y se recortan del coloquio peruano, según ha observado el crítico Julio Ortega. Testimonio de nuestra actualidad, la obra poética de Cisneros no es otro manual de sobrevivencia, sino la demostración de la sobrevivencia de la poesía misma. En ese sentido, es una de las voces más nuestras, más originales, más permanentes. Y un verdadero placer del idioma. (Julio Ortega)
- GenresPoetry
338 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1996
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About the author
Antonio Cisneros
51 books8 followersAntonio Alfonso Cisneros Campoy was a Peruvian poet, journalist and academic. He was born in Lima on 27 December 1942 and died there of lung cancer on 6 October 2012, aged 69.
According to Alonso Rabí do Carmo, “the characteristics at the heart of Cisneros’ poetry are intertextuality and constant word-play; the simultaneous presence of the personal and the public or collective that achieves a new kind of epic discourse and dramatic harmony; the abolition of the false dichotomy between ‘pure poetry’ and ‘social poetry’ and the abandonment of any hint of provincialism or local reference, so as to situate the speaker within the poem in his own time, which provides the poetic individuality that is Cisneros’ trademark; the diverse use of the poem as a path to reflection and representation of the individual, the social and the cultural. This triad is given its own equal particularity and importance, whether addressing day-to-day experience, social relationships or historical context.”[3]
The style emerged particularly in his first poetic success, Comentarios reales de Antonio Cisneros, in which the public account of the imperial enterprise is undermined by reinterpreting it from the point of view of the subject peoples. This is signalled by the play of meaning in the word real in his title, which can signify both ‘royal’ and ‘real’; the boastful official commentary on events is counterpointed in the collection against the bare statement of the human cost. The terse and understated accounts there make their point wittily without the need of further elaboration.
The style was further elaborated in his next, equally successful collection, Canto ceremonial contra un oso hormiguero (1968); there too a growing familiarity with the new style of writing in the United States led Cisneros to experiment from then onwards with a more flowing, longer-lined poetry.
According to Alonso Rabí do Carmo, “the characteristics at the heart of Cisneros’ poetry are intertextuality and constant word-play; the simultaneous presence of the personal and the public or collective that achieves a new kind of epic discourse and dramatic harmony; the abolition of the false dichotomy between ‘pure poetry’ and ‘social poetry’ and the abandonment of any hint of provincialism or local reference, so as to situate the speaker within the poem in his own time, which provides the poetic individuality that is Cisneros’ trademark; the diverse use of the poem as a path to reflection and representation of the individual, the social and the cultural. This triad is given its own equal particularity and importance, whether addressing day-to-day experience, social relationships or historical context.”[3]
The style emerged particularly in his first poetic success, Comentarios reales de Antonio Cisneros, in which the public account of the imperial enterprise is undermined by reinterpreting it from the point of view of the subject peoples. This is signalled by the play of meaning in the word real in his title, which can signify both ‘royal’ and ‘real’; the boastful official commentary on events is counterpointed in the collection against the bare statement of the human cost. The terse and understated accounts there make their point wittily without the need of further elaboration.
The style was further elaborated in his next, equally successful collection, Canto ceremonial contra un oso hormiguero (1968); there too a growing familiarity with the new style of writing in the United States led Cisneros to experiment from then onwards with a more flowing, longer-lined poetry.
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February 3, 2024
Fantástico poeta. Fantástico libro. No puedo ponerle cinco estrellas porque hubo ciertas partes que me parecieron en extremo crípticas y no las disfruté. Pero es un gran libro, con muy frecuentes momentos de altísima luminosidad.
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