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Saturday, November 12, 2022

Detective

 I am tracking down some poetry conspiracies.  

https://www.amazon.com/El-canon-abierto-español-Spanish/dp/849895908X/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1668273934&refinements=p_27%3AAnthony+L.+Geits&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Anthony+L.+Geits

There is an anthology of poetry edited by Remedios Sánchez, a professor from the U of Granada, with Tony Geist, a US Hispanist, published by Visor. This anthology was supposedly done by consulting with 200 critics from 100 universities about who the best Spanish-language poets are (born after 1970). 

Remedios also has a book about the new internet poets, and in it is an article by Luis García Montero, and articles in praise of the internet poets.  It seems to be all about promoting a certain kind of poetry, but also giving it a kind of academic validity, since it's non-academic poetry of a sort. You find the same people behind everything, Chus Visor, the publisher of Visor books, who publishes all these poets, LGM, the chef d'ecole of the poetry of experience. Fernando Valverde is also omnipresent in these discussions. 


1 comment:

Leslie B. said...

Oh, this is interesting. I remember a question from a mathematician on a P&T committee one time, a very precise person: "if Visor is truly peer reviewed, what is the quality of the reviewers?"