El verso desregulado
Ezequiel Zaidenwerg-Dib
NONFICTION | 2025 | 294 pages
When it comes to Ibero-American poetry, academic literary criticism has been characterized by its frequent reliance on quotations and notes from others, and by a lack of perspectives discovering, analyzing, and understanding "the new." This narrow and limited approach has long demanded a profound perestroika, one that would make it clear once and for all that rigor and intelligence can be exercised without having to worship tedium, the great promoter of a negative capacity for understanding. Zaidenwerg-Dib's charismatic prose takes a different approach: a shortcut to what is no longer predictable. He appeals to the riffs and script departures of creative intelligence by distorting the behavior of language in its pre-communicative stage. In this book, ideal for gauging synchronicities, he positively alters the ways of expanding critical thought, the ways of thinking in a deferred manner about what a poem is always about to become (to the extent that tone plays a part). He maps the vampirization of styles exercised in an era of syncretisms, of spin-offs centered on oscillations in language on the verge of changing its mind.
Zaidenwerg-Dib distances himself from any misunderstanding that might have arisen when delving critically into recent poetry. Through a practice of hypothesis and antithesis, the critic insists on respecting the rhythms of the poetry under consideration, which in its own way represents an era characterized by misology and by a hatred of language used without an evident desire for communication.
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