White Light

The Poetry of Alberto Blanco

Ronald J. Friis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2021
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-345-7 (ISBN)

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Examines the interplay of complementary images and concepts in the award-winning Mexican writer's cycle of poems from 1979 to 2018. This book explores how polarities such as space and place, reading and writing, sound and silence, visual and verbal representation, and faith and doubt are woven through Alberto Blanco's work.

White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco examines the interplay of complementary images and concepts in the award-winning Mexican writer's cycle of poems from 1979 to 2018. Blanco’s poetic trilogy A la luz de siempre is characterized by its broad range of form and subject and by the poet's own eclectic background as a chemist, maker of collages, and musician. Blanco speaks the language of the visual arts, science, mathematics, music, and philosophy, and creates work with deep interdisciplinary roots. This book explores how polarities such as space and place, reading and writing, sound and silence, visual and verbal representation, and faith and doubt are woven through A la luz de siempre. These complements reveal how Blanco’s poetry, like the phenomenon of white light, embraces paradox and transforms into something more than the sum of its disparate and polychromatic parts.

RONALD J. FRIIS is a professor of Spanish at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His publications include José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows (Bucknell University Press) and Doble vía: Comunicación en español (with Tatiana Séeligman).

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Introduction: Light Is Both Wave and Particle

Alberto Blanco

The Poems

Cycles

Polarities

White Light

1 Image

Collage

Absence and Negation

Poesía visual

“Donner à voir”

Ekphrasis

The Constellation of the Rose

2 Space

The Exergue Effect

Time and Place Stamps

Travel

“Mapas”

Montage and Movie Stars

Three Spatial Strategies for Cuenta de los guías

3 Sound

Sister Arts and Synesthesia

Tempo, Rhythm, and Rhyme

Musical Paratexts

Silence

4 Texture

Reading and Writing Writers

Writing Readers

Writing Writing

Hemispheres

Taijitu

The Third Half

5 Metaphysics

Scientific Methods

Observer Effects

Crisis

Lessons in Geometry

Aura

Genesis

Faith

Coda: Flight

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.11.2021
Zusatzinfo	n-a
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	4 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
ISBN-10	1-68448-345-X / 168448345X
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-345-7 / 9781684483457
Zustand	Neuware