Fluctuations in Contemporary Argentine Poetry: Fernández Moreno, Perlongher, Dobry

Abstract

Poetry as a kingdom of miniature, of a scale model relegated, at the turn of the millennium, to account for a reified and untransferable experience, indicates a retreat that we can identify in three specific moments of contemporary Argentine poetry: the colloquialism of César Fernández Moreno’s Argentino hasta la muerte (1963), Néstor Perlongher’s neo baroque poetry and objectivism in Edgardo Dobry’s Cosas (2008). From the extreme long shot and the sociological concern for national identity (Fernández Moreno), to the american shot where the body enjoys by the rhythm of the adventure of freed signifiers (Perlongher), and from there to the tight shot directly focused on objects that keep non-transferable experiential reminiscences (Dobry), Argentine poetry accuses, twenty years apart between each period, a movement of withdrawal and loss.