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Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry pp 55–99Cite as

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Martín Gambarotta: Narrative Verse and the Anti-Lyric

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Bollig offers a detailed study of the poetry of Martín Gambarotta. He argues that its anti-lyrical and even anti-poetic features run contrary to an apparent faith in the independent publishing sphere. Despite the apparently separate careers of the writer, as both a poet and a political commentator, verse offers a space for the political analysis felt to be missing from other media in Argentina in the 1990s and 2000s. If his poetry seems to attack its predecessors, frequent republishing by independent presses suggests that the writer operates on the limit between the impossibility of writing poetry and the fruitlessness of writing anything else.

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Bollig, B. (2016). Martín Gambarotta: Narrative Verse and the Anti-Lyric. In: Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58859-3_3

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