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The first collection of the poetry of Juan Calzadilla to be translated into English, "Journal with No Subject" spans eleven books published from 1962 to the present. This poetry denounces the dehumanization of modernity, appropriates surrealistic language, questions identity and poetry itself, and dissolves the coherent, autonomous subject. Uniting political and aesthetic radicalism, Calzadilla ultimately reestablishes faith in poetry.
Sommario
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Juan Calzadilla or Total Poetry
- from Dictated by the Pack
- I Live Day by Day
- Waiting for Salvation
- Necessary Methods
- I Have Been Another
- Hitting the Abyss
- With Bad Manners
- Quartz
- The Magma Must Return
- In Memory of the Angel
- Jonas Always
- from Bad Manners
- Inmate
- Counting to Zero
- Invisible Arms
- Interrogation of the Empty Suits
- Subterranean Landscapes
- Under New Warning
- City Alone
- "Banal spectacles . . ."
- "You demand clemency . . ."
- from Supernatural Contradictions
- Legitimate Defense
- Paper Mask
- Stone over Stone
- "Pay attention . . ."
- from Aimless Citizen
- I Have No Excuses to Explain Why I Am Not Another
- Occupations
- from Strangers' Manual
- Old City
- Tin Mask
- Like in a Wave
- Inverse Situation
- Citizen
- Question of Names
- from Oh, smog
- Garbage Men's Prologue
- The Regretful Constructors
- Where Citizens Evoke Rural Life
- Dreamers on Foot
- A New Role
- To Guide Themselves Citizens Climb Poles
- Dealer of Destinies I
- The Multitude
- Praying Hunters
- The Contaminated Fountain
- The Rebel Cub
- A Circumspect Fireman
- from Minimals
- Interstice
- Poetic
- Poetic II
- The Crisis
- Dog Talk
- Humboldt
- Nostalgia in Clouded Gray
- I had No Gold, Cattle or Hacienda
- Urbanity
- End with Revolver
- Epitaph
- from Glow and Hollowness
- Life is not literature
- Neither is religion
- Prose contains the poem
- To summarize
- Poetic
- It is unnecessary to wind up the imagination
- Here is our proposal
- Inspiration
- Nature offers itself
- Only what exists can be corrected
- Poetic
- Can reality be written
- The precise body from there
- I am the one who has to talk and not things
- from Principles of Urbanity
- Smudge of Ink on the Sea
- Written in Emily's Album
- Pavement with New Commensal
- Ithaca
- The Deed and Its Waiting
- The Pure Poetic Act
- Heroism of Reality
- Massage
- We Would Be Immortal
- Principles of Urbanity
- 1
- 2
- 3
- The Ferocious Invalids
- The Sensible Man
- The Last One on the Team
- To Be Hanging
- Still Life
- Definition
- Realism
- from Journal with No Subject
- Journal with No Subject
- And Besides It Should Be Done by All
- Objectualist Poetic
- What Had To Be Said
- Hunger for Writing
- The Poet Is a Hindrance, I Know
- Couldn't It Be Given Form without Writing It?
- The Book Will Speak for Itself
- The Paradoxical Style
- Wager (In the Form of a Manifesto)
- The Magician
- Middle Ground
- I Want Poetry to Reign
- Toward a Corporal Poetic
- The Materials
- Walled-In
- Sisyphus
- To Strike in the Sky
- And Now the History of Criticism
- Pleasures of the Hunt
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- Headaches
- Inexact Communications
- The Old Thresher (Autobiographical Memory)
- The Lark
- Big Bang
- The Poet Cub
- Interlineation
- Form as Subterfuge
- Everything that Doesn't Fit on the Page
- The Ambiguity of Sense Has Made Poetry the Greatest Temptation for the Imaginative Individual
- Oceanic Demonym
- Erasure
- The Rules of Art
- from Aforemas
- Cut with the Same Measure
- Your Bag or Your Life
- The Idea of Modernity
- Inmate of Putrefaction
Info autore
Juan Calzadilla (Altagracia de Orituco, Venezuela, 1931) is a paradigm of the complete artist. His work includes poetry, narrative, essay, the visual arts, art criticism, journalism, translation, and editing. He was co-founder in 1961 of the revolutionary cultural movement El Techo de la Ballena [The Whale’s Roof], and in 1984, of the prestigious journal of arts and literature, Imagen. For his work as a sketcher and painter he received Venezuela’s National Prize for the Visual Arts in 1996. His constant poetic production, which began in 1954 with Primeros poemas, includes more than twenty fundamental titles. With intellectual discernment, he vehemently seeks to dissolve the subject, create a more stripped-down language, and to participate as well as represent.
Riassunto
The first collection of the poetry of Juan Calzadilla to be translated into English, Journal with No Subject spans eleven books published from 1962 to the present. This poetry denounces the dehumanization of modernity, appropriates surrealistic language, questions identity and poetry itself, and dissolves the coherent, autonomous subject.
