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.

Provides fresh perspectives on the connection between literature and public space through readings of contemporary Argentine poetry Brings together a range of significant contemporary poets, such as Sergio Raimondi, Andi Nachon, Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, Martín Gambarotta, and Marina Yuszczuk, with original translations of their works Challenges established ideas about the "death" of the lyric by examining the social function of poetry, particularly in terms of publishing, feminism, and cultural production.

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Ben Bollig is Professor of Spanish-American Literature at Oxford University, UK and an editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies . His previous books include Néstor Perlongher and Modern Argentine Poetry: Displacement, Exile, Migration . He is the translator of Cristian Aliaga's The Foreign Passion (Influx Press).

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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 Yuszczuk's Madre soltera .- Conclusion.- Bibliography.