New York’s writings: urban geometry and poetic metamorphosis

Abstract

Taking different exponents of Latin American poetry as a starting point and trying to demonstrate the unstable nature of the urban reality, changing with the voice of each of its narrators, we will deeply examine the work of three poets, Concha Zardoya, Eduardo Mitre and Enrique Lihn. All of them will provide evidence of their passage through New York city which, even if acclaimed at some point as a symbol of progress, at the end of the century has been shown as an unmistakable sign of the unsuccessful myth of modernity.