http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/12/poetry-tourism/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:37:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/12/poetry-tourism/#comment-2023 john Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:15:49 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=570#comment-2023 It may be worth noting that interest in "the primitive" is a modernist development itself. Wordsworth, for example, regarded the earliest-known-about cave paintings with disgust. It may be worth noting that interest in “the primitive” is a modernist development itself. Wordsworth, for example, regarded the earliest-known-about cave paintings with disgust.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/12/poetry-tourism/#comment-2022 Ange Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:32:52 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=570#comment-2022 Thank you for the information. My (reading) Spanish isn't bad, but it isn't great. I should get up to speed. I read just a brief review of a book that talked about Soltiname's destruction by Somoza and the (to me, simply outrageous) castigation of Cardenal by the Pope for his liberation theology. My (shallow) understanding of the Soltename aesthetic is that it is a mystical Christian-primitivism that, like say Gaugin's primitivism, rejects the Modernist pact with technological progress and spiritual agnosticism. And that it rejects Marxist social realism as well. But this association with Pound and especially Cortazar certainly piques my interest further... Thank you for the information. My (reading) Spanish isn’t bad, but it isn’t great. I should get up to speed. I read just a brief review of a book that talked about Soltiname’s destruction by Somoza and the (to me, simply outrageous) castigation of Cardenal by the Pope for his liberation theology.
My (shallow) understanding of the Soltename aesthetic is that it is a mystical Christian-primitivism that, like say Gaugin’s primitivism, rejects the Modernist pact with technological progress and spiritual agnosticism. And that it rejects Marxist social realism as well. But this association with Pound and especially Cortazar certainly piques my interest further…

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/12/poetry-tourism/#comment-2021 Guillermo Parra Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:17:55 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=570#comment-2021 If you read Spanish, Ernesto Cardenal's recent three-volume memoir talks a lot about his years at Solentiname. (The 3 volumes are: "Vida perdida," "Las ínsulas extrañas" and "La revolución perdida.") He managed to attract many visiting poets from around the world until the place was destroyed by Somoza in the 1970s. The Venezuelan poet Armando Rojas Guardia, for instance, spent some time there in the early 70s and he speaks highly of the experience. Cortázar was another frequent visitor. I'm not sure if Solentiname really could be described as "anti-Modernist," since Cardenal is a disciple of Pound, basing his own "Exteriorismo" on Pound's work. If you read Spanish, Ernesto Cardenal’s recent three-volume memoir talks a lot about his years at Solentiname. (The 3 volumes are: “Vida perdida,” “Las ínsulas extrañas” and “La revolución perdida.”) He managed to attract many visiting poets from around the world until the place was destroyed by Somoza in the 1970s. The Venezuelan poet Armando Rojas Guardia, for instance, spent some time there in the early 70s and he speaks highly of the experience. Cortázar was another frequent visitor.
I’m not sure if Solentiname really could be described as “anti-Modernist,” since Cardenal is a disciple of Pound, basing his own “Exteriorismo” on Pound’s work.

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