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solar plexus

Oswaldo Chanover (Arequipa, 1954) is the author of one book of poetry paradigmatic of the 80 Peruvian, The hero and his relationship with heroin (1983), which shared many of the poetic options from the previous decade, but putting much more emphasis on irony and parody. These same elements can be found in the solar plexus (Coven, 2010), his sixth and latest book of poems.

From the book's title, taken from the anatomical nomenclature, these 33 poems are presented as consistent scientific discourse (on the laws of evolution, the big bang , operation Brain, etc.) but are slowly stumbling and falling on several contradictions, which the poet presents in words or verses enclosed in parentheses. Thus, the brackets are multiplied to provide a second speech parallel. Much of the poetic effect is precisely the jumps between these two "records."

The ruptures and breaks dynamic contributes ironic use of references from the most prestigious culture-eg the poems entitled "The dice (eternal)" or "Cursed Cavafy! - Or the most popular and media: rock, film , colloquial language. Although in this respect as in others, solar plexus is less successful than the first books of poems by Chanover, is nevertheless a valuable book, which shows an author coming to full maturity.


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can read several poems from the book in Chronicle moment, blog author. Other texts on
solar plexus : Camilo Fernandez.