Luis Garcia Montero (Granada, 1958) is one of the most read and
influential Spanish writers today. He is an essayist, fiction
writer, journalist, professor of Spanish Literature at the
University of Granada, and, principally, a poet. He has received
numerous important honors, like the National Poetry Prize (1994)
and the National Critic's Prize (2003), both in Spain, and the
Poets of the Latin World Prize (2010), in Mexico. He has published
eleven books of poetry, represented in The World So Often, his
first anthology in English. Luis Garcia Montero's poetry has
commonly been considered - even by the author himself - as realist,
yet this is a misinterpretation. His poetic subject doesn't try to
trap the reader in an illusory world offered up as natural, but
rather to break with the automatic perception of things and facts,
and so avoid catharsis. What's crucial here is the use of a
language that does not try to be transparent, a simple instrument
of communication, and that risks its neck to be noticed. It's a
language that is both reflection and matter, and thus, has the
agency to change things, the capacity to transform. Moreover, this
language is not limited to the lyrical tradition, it doesn't
discriminate against words in any way, it becomes democratized. By
combining prosaism and tropological density, it searches for a
discourse with a greater power of representation and participation.
In short, Garcia Montero's work achieves a balance between
sentimental rigor and intellectual outpouring, rejects solipsism,
and goes deeper into dialogical poetry.
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