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Hora Zero: Óperas Primas
Contiene la poética y la poesía del movimiento hacia la revolución y el nuevo hombre. En estas óperas primas, recogidas en este libro, se reúne la esencia de Hora Zero y el sutra de los manifiestos que bien forman parte de la poética del grupo con los tres primeros y más importantes libros del movimiento: Kenacort y Valium 10 , Un Par de Vueltas por la Realidad, y En los Extramuros del Mundo. En estos libros está plasmado el vitalismo, el antiacademicismo y la voz libertaria del Hora Zero. Una voz que será lava volcánica y farol no solo para los poetas de las generaciones posteriores sino para la sociedad, el Perú y la coyuntura política-social-económica.
368 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2016
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October 6, 2023
Amazing collection of otherwise near-impossible to find primary texts of the proto-punk rocknroll communist poetes maudits of Peruvian literature HORA ZERO.
Verástegui's collection is the best (and shortest)—Pimentel and Ruiz really put it all on the line, and sometimes more than seems advisable (Pimentel's dedication-as-preamble is more than 12 pages long, and mostly entertaining all the way through [he dedicates the book to Ezra Pound, Iron Butterfly, Che Guevara, and his unnamed girlfriend, among about two hundred others]), but his debut poetry collection runs almost 200 pages, and at a certain point one wonders if he thought this was his only chance to publish in his lifetime.
By way of historical context and introduction for HZ (who are not widely known in the anglophone world and seemingly not widely read in any world): Hora Zero was linked in their comradeship with the retroactively much more famous Mexican Infrarrealistas as both equals and inspiration (they are so named in Mario Santiago's manifesto)—Bolaño shares some space with these names among others in Tulio Mora's other big Hora Zero anthology Hora Zero: Los broches mayores del sonido, while Verástegui and Pimentel were included in the infamous Muchachos desnudos bajo el arcoiris de fuego. Once jóvenes poetas latinoamericanos., the two horazeroanos being heralded in verse along with the rest of the contributors in the introduction by one of the Mexican greats Efraín Huerta (can be found in his Poesia completa/ Complete Poetry in the collection Circuito Interior as the poem entitled: "&"). The most interesting polymath of the group is easily Enrique Verástegui, and the best writer consistently (perhaps due to her discernment in not publishing every thing she ever wrote) is likely Verástegui's one-time partner, Carmen Ollé.
Verástegui's collection is the best (and shortest)—Pimentel and Ruiz really put it all on the line, and sometimes more than seems advisable (Pimentel's dedication-as-preamble is more than 12 pages long, and mostly entertaining all the way through [he dedicates the book to Ezra Pound, Iron Butterfly, Che Guevara, and his unnamed girlfriend, among about two hundred others]), but his debut poetry collection runs almost 200 pages, and at a certain point one wonders if he thought this was his only chance to publish in his lifetime.
By way of historical context and introduction for HZ (who are not widely known in the anglophone world and seemingly not widely read in any world): Hora Zero was linked in their comradeship with the retroactively much more famous Mexican Infrarrealistas as both equals and inspiration (they are so named in Mario Santiago's manifesto)—Bolaño shares some space with these names among others in Tulio Mora's other big Hora Zero anthology Hora Zero: Los broches mayores del sonido, while Verástegui and Pimentel were included in the infamous Muchachos desnudos bajo el arcoiris de fuego. Once jóvenes poetas latinoamericanos., the two horazeroanos being heralded in verse along with the rest of the contributors in the introduction by one of the Mexican greats Efraín Huerta (can be found in his Poesia completa/ Complete Poetry in the collection Circuito Interior as the poem entitled: "&"). The most interesting polymath of the group is easily Enrique Verástegui, and the best writer consistently (perhaps due to her discernment in not publishing every thing she ever wrote) is likely Verástegui's one-time partner, Carmen Ollé.
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