Review | WD40 Magazine – No. 11 Expanding Poetry

By Wolfgang Bongers (excerpt):

I should start by commenting that Expanding Poetry It's a «link» book, even if it isn't an experimental edition in the sense Fernando uses in the book. It creates a link because it goes beyond a simple history of experimental literary practices in Chile. On the one hand, it's an exploration of the experimental scene in Santiago by an active participant in that scene. As we all know, Fernando is a poet, musician, academic, was the editor of the magazine Vértebra, knows the environment very well, and is part of the Orquesta de Poetas, which is mentioned several times in the book and is part of that experimental scene. Fernando himself says that the book is a guide, an overview of experimental poetic production from the
first 20 years of the new millennium. The book offers pertinent reflections on contemporary poetic practices: it considers the background in concrete poetry of an indispensable Augusto de Campos, and traces genealogies and bifurcations from a kind of
canon of Chilean experimental poetry: Huidobro, Mandragora, Juan Luis Martínez, Enrique Lihn, Guillermo Deisler, Nicanor Parra, Cecilia Vicuña, Eugenio Dittborn, Carmen Berenguer, Gonzalo Millán, Claudio Bertoni, Raúl Zurita, and several other names are present and traverse the book.

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