Late 20th and Early 21st Century Poetry: Trends and Authors
The Poetry of the Late 20th and Early 21st Century
The late twentieth and early twenty-first century is characterized by a genuine poetic expression and evolution of a genre that leads to the decay of the previous social realism and diversification thematic and formal.
Poetry before 1976 centered on reclamation of standardization of language and the conquest of areas of use. Two basic aspects are clear antecedents of poetic production later are the teaching of the elders and the decline of poetry social realista. The work Novis: The Portuguese Poetry, gives name to a group of authors, “the Novis”, introducing a deeper intimacy and formal qualities.
In 1976, after the publication of Gunpowder and Magnolias by Ferrín and Mester by A. López-Casanova, serving more resources to formal and aesthetic dimension of poem, introduce new topics of intimate nature, existential, metaphysical, mythological and cultural. The authors of this new period gather in groups as Disruptive, whose first work conference was Breaking the Lira, which have innovative proposals, Clove Fund, which posted a single collective work with the same name as the group as Well, which made itself known a book together with the same name, is Of Love and Hatred, which has published two books with this title. It is also worth highlighting the role played by magazines like Dorna, or Feast of the Word Loia Silenced, founded by John Mª Queizán.
The Group of Eighty Authors
The group of eighty authors reject the anterior aesthetics. They have common characteristics as culturalism, which is reflected in intertextuality, the presence of new sciences such as philosophy or music, the concern with form and incorporate new themes like the intimate, cultural, social, reflection or environment. The poets of this group tend to separate into several trends according to his poetic lines.
Culturalist Line
Under the culturalist line should include authors who reflect on issues such as the passage of time, nostalgia, beauty, love and the cosmos, like Ramiro Fonte, with works like The Cities from Scratch, Garden or Hobby, Miguel Anxo Fernandez Vello with works such as The Desire Body and Shadow, or Xosé María Álvarez Caccamo, with works like The Notebooks of Wrath.
Poetry of Everyday Life
In the poetry of everyday life is more representative of the author Manuel Rivas, with works such as Carnival or Ballad Book of the Beaches of the West. His poetry is characterized by motifs from everyday life, conflicts between people and portrait spaces between rural and urban.
Intimate Female Poetry
In intimate female poetry stand with works like Pilar Pallares Between Dusk and Twilight, in which predominates the loving feeling connected to suffering and even death, and Ana Festival, with works such as Word of the Sea.
Natural Ways
In line with the natural ways we can highlight Claudio Rodríguez Fer, which pays particular attention to erotic poetry in works such as Poems of Love without Death or Trips for You.
The 90s and New Poetic Voices
In the 90s, the new poets needed to be placed into groups and Will Turn On or Dolmen, and creating new editorial for the publication of works of authors often unpublished. Opted for a familiar and prosaic language, dialects and varieties with a speech based on how ILOXIS said. Other authors, such as Miro Villar, with works such as Absences Past or Torloni Christiane, who wrote The Tower of Defeat, sought to further develop the formal aspects.
Libertarian Speech
At issue are libertarian speech highlighted the implications of language loss and received. Stands out in this line the collective Ronseltz, you want to avoid stereotypes through humor and parody, and Yolanda Brown, whose work is appreciated developments since adolescence and experiences erotic to the denunciation of consumerism and reflection on beauty and physical appearances, as in We Live Delights or The Cycle of Erofonías.
Hermetic Speech
The line of hermetic speech intelligibility is difficult due to its density and lack of logical order, among others. We highlight the Chus Pato, with works such as Hours of Writing.