Concrete poetry: Return or the city from petrified Mexico
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poems city of Mexico, book Vuelta de Octavio Paz
Abstract
This essay focuses on the poems of the section “Ciudad de México” from Octavio Paz’s Vuelta, one of the author’s most intense books about Mexico. Vuelta chronicles the poet’s return to his native city after years of absence, amidst the controversy for the massacre of students perpetrated by the Mexican army in October of 1968. These poems gather images suggesting
a personal conflict for the devastation of the collective history and are a testimony of the encounter with a place, Mexico City, and by extension with the nation, its history and culture, which reveals the existence of a dynamic Mexico that is neither modern, nor ancestral; neither
developed, nor underdeveloped, but the sum of different historic periods and cultures overlapping under the surface. For Paz, criticism is the only way to confront these issues, but being a poet, this criticism includes language.
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