This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of lyric and state as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how poems come to speak to us about politics. Drawing on concepts from contemporary literary theory, this striking study combines textual analysis with historical research to shed light on the ways in which new modes of circulation help to shape poetry today.

Ben Bollig is Professor of Spanish-American Literature at Oxford University, UK and an editor of theJournal of Latin American Cultural Studies. His previous books includeNéstor Perlongher andModern Argentine Poetry: Displacement, Exile, Migration. He is the translator of Cristian AliagasThe Foreign Passion(Influx Press).

Introduction. The Lyric and the State.- Chapter 1. Spaces and Circuits of Contemporary Argentine Poetry.- Chapter 2. Martín Gambarotta. Narrative Verse and the Anti-Lyric.- Chapter 3. From Objectivism to a New Epic. The Poetry and Poetic Activism of Sergio Raimondi.- Chapter 4. Vos y yo estamos acá. Lyric/Non-Lyric and Public Space in the Poetry of Andi Nachon.- Chapter 5. Lyric Redivivus. Form and Politics in the Poetry of Ezequiel Zaidenwerg.- Chapter 6. A New Maternal Lyric. Marina YuszczuksMadre soltera.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.