Although Nicanor Parra characterizes his later works as “ecopoetry” (see Ecopoetics), his first volumes belong to an earlier movement, which he termed “antipoetry.” While the title of Parra’s second volume (Poemas y antipoemas) announced Parra’s new concept of the antipoem… Read More ›
postwar poetry criticism
Analysis of Miroslav Holub’s Collision
Miroslav Holub’s (1982) Collision was first published in a collection of poems—Interferon, or on Theater (1982, United States; 1986, Czechoslovakia)—that, as the title suggests, takes immunology and theater as the central realms from which the poet draws his metaphors. The… Read More ›