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Lyric Exhaustion: A Critical Reading of Poetry in the Present

No. 31 (2024-01-09)
  • David Barreto
    UDLA
https://doi.org/10.25025/perifrasis202415.31.07

Abstract

This article argues the thesis that we are in the midst of a radical shift in the lyrical paradigm of modernity. Through a critical examination of the poetry collection La flor del extérmino by Chilean writer Andrés Ajens and a polemic interpretation of the philosopher Alain Badiou’s formula the age of poets, this essay defines the boundaries of lyrical exhaustion, which coincides with the decline of the grand narratives that structured modernity. The ultimate purpose is to provide clues to elucidate the new directions that poetry may be taking in the present.

Keywords: lyric, lyric exhaustion, Alain Badiou, Andrés Ajens, contemporary poetry, modernity, poetry, latin american poetry

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