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White Light
The Poetry of Alberto Blanco
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco examines the interplay of complementary images and concepts in the award-winning Mexican writer's cycle of poems from 1979 to 2018. Blanco’s poetic trilogy A la luz de siempre is characterized by its broad range of form and subject and by the poet's own eclectic background as a chemist, maker of collages, and musician. Blanco speaks the language of the visual arts, science, mathematics, music, and philosophy, and creates work with deep interdisciplinary roots. This book explores how polarities such as space and place, reading and writing, sound and silence, visual and verbal representation, and faith and doubt are woven through A la luz de siempre. These complements reveal how Blanco’s poetry, like the phenomenon of white light, embraces paradox and transforms into something more than the sum of its disparate and polychromatic parts.
Author / Editor information
RONALD J. FRIIS is a professor of Spanish at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His publications include José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows (Bucknell University Press) and Doble vía: Comunicación en español (with Tatiana Séeligman).
Reviews
"The breadth and depth of interdisciplinary experience and influence in Alberto Blanco’s work could make approaching his poetry a daunting proposition. An accomplished artist and musician, trained chemist, and experienced translator, Blanco draws on a wide range of sources among which he rejects rigid boundaries. Ronald Friis provides not only an insightful tracing of influences, themes, and dynamics in Blanco’s poetry but also a well developed and integrated reading of critics and theory to accompany his analysis. The result is an intelligent, insightful, and accessible consideration of the work of one of Mexico’s most accomplished contemporary intellectuals, artists, and poets."
— Cecelia J. Cavanaugh, author of Lorca's Drawings and Poems: Forming the Eye of the Reader"A thoughtfully organized, deep engagement that illuminates and contextualizes correspondences among Blanco’s works, as well as with his impressive constellation of literary, musical, artistic, scientific, and philosophical interlocutors, White Light serves in part as an introduction to Blanco’s decades-spanning oeuvre and as a compendium of references to secondary sources."
— Bruce Willis, author of Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature: Body ArticulationsTopics
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Chronology
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Introduction: Light Is Both Wave and Particle
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1. Image
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2. Space
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3. Sound
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4. Texture
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5. Metaphysics
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Coda: Flight
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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About the Author
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 31, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9781684483495
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781684483495
Keywords for this book
Alberto Blanco; poetry; paratext; interdisciplinary; A la luz de siempre; Latin American literature; visual arts; white light; paradox; Mexican writer; Mexican poet
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
