What Does A Kg Of Fat Look Like

Argentine poetry anthology of writers living in Britain

éditée aux éditions par Gustavo Lopez de Bahia Blanca

Vox

"Poetry is still in the center of the literary establishment in Britain, which does not date from yesterday. But let's put aside the past and its prestigious authors (Corbière, Segalen, Robin, Guillevic ... etc.) E interesémonos as can be glimpsed or guessed, say, from early 1980. The question is not simple. The current writings show great diversity. Each poet has a particular itinerary. Although there are some points of convergence. Because addition of an era a place and a common imagination, there is a collective memory of where each other come to feed. This is reflected primarily in the topics: the sea, death, exile, wandering, the relationship with real, unreal and with a background (almost always) be an unspeakable sadness.

On the way, no different from what is written in other parts of France (and Belgium, Switzerland, Québec) for several decades. We find the same movements, the same influences, the same nuances and meanders, they also ...

tics Faced with such abundance, impossible to penetrate the jungle, or forest-published materials except on tiptoe. Everyone can then walk among branches, visible roots and "weed language" (for retormar an expression of Georges Perros) trying to warn the voices able to speak. "

Jacques Josse
(From the magazine Europe, n º 91, May 2005)

traductions Silvio Mattoni