The ear to the poem Listening and affectivity in recent Argentine poetry

Abstract

 In the current paper, I propose an itinerary based on four scenes in which different relations between listening and affectivity are articulated: hate, love, politics and otherness. Each section focuses on different books of contemporary Argentine poetry of the last decade: Odio a la poesía objetivista, by Francisco Garamona; Vos ahora voz, by Franco Rivero; Sequía and Una bomba nos está matando a todos, by Gabriel Reches; and Martes dedo, by Alfonsina Brión. My objective is to analyze the solidary functioning between listening and affectivity through the formal and compositional effects on the texts. As a hypothesis, I start from the idea that listening marks a form of relationship with the other in the poems. Methodologically, I return to the studies of Florencia Garramuño and Luciana di Leone on poetry and affectivity. In turn, I refer to the theories around listening outlined mainly by Jean-Luc Nancy and Peter Szendy. As a contribution to the specific field of Argentine poetry criticism, although the article proposes an itinerary through specific books, the problem raised could be thought of transversally as a possible line of composition for the poetry of the present.