Returning to form: new poetry from Argentina
In Arturo Carrera’s 2001 anthology of contemporary poetry, Monstruos, the influential Argentine writer Alejandro Rubio stated that, “Lyric poetry is dead. Who has the time, with cable TV and FM radio, to listen to a love-sick youth playing the lute?”
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Los Angeles Review of Books
2016
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| Summary: | In Arturo Carrera’s 2001 anthology of contemporary poetry, Monstruos, the influential Argentine writer Alejandro Rubio stated that, “Lyric poetry is dead. Who has the time, with cable TV and FM radio, to listen to a love-sick youth playing the lute?” |
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