Overview

White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco examines the interplay of complementary images and concepts in the award-winning Mexican writer's cycle of poems from 1979 to 2018. Blanco's poetic trilogy A la luz de siempre is characterized by its broad range of form and subject and by the poet's own eclectic background as a chemist, maker of collages, and musician. Blanco speaks the language of the visual arts, science, mathematics, music, and philosophy, and creates work with deep interdisciplinary roots. This book explores how polarities such as space and place, reading and writing, sound and silence, visual and verbal representation, and faith and doubt are woven through A la luz de siempre. These complements reveal how Blanco's poetry, like the phenomenon of white light, embraces paradox and transforms into something more than the sum of its disparate and polychromatic parts.

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Author:   Ronald J. Friis
Publisher:   Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.004kg
ISBN:  

9781684483457

ISBN 10:   168448345
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   12 November 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction: Light Is Both Wave and Particle Alberto Blanco The Poems Cycles Polarities White Light 1 Image Collage Absence and Negation Poesía visual “Donner à voir” Ekphrasis The Constellation of the Rose 2 Space The Exergue Effect Time and Place Stamps Travel “Mapas” Montage and Movie Stars Three Spatial Strategies for Cuenta de los guías 3 Sound Sister Arts and Synesthesia Tempo, Rhythm, and Rhyme Musical Paratexts Silence 4 Texture Reading and Writing Writers Writing Readers Writing Writing Hemispheres Taijitu The Third Half 5 Metaphysics Scientific Methods Observer Effects Crisis Lessons in Geometry Aura Genesis Faith Coda: Flight Notes Bibliography Index

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The breadth and depth of interdisciplinary experience and influence in Alberto Blanco's work could make approaching his poetry a daunting proposition. An accomplished artist and musician, trained chemist, and experienced translator, Blanco draws on a wide range of sources among which he rejects rigid boundaries. Ronald Friis provides not only an insightful tracing of influences, themes, and dynamics in Blanco's poetry but also a well developed and integrated reading of critics and theory to accompany his analysis. The result is an intelligent, insightful, and accessible consideration of the work of one of Mexico's most accomplished contemporary intellectuals, artists, and poets. --Cecelia J. Cavanaugh author of Lorca's Drawings and Poems: Forming the Eye of the Reader A thoughtfully organized, deep engagement that illuminates and contextualizes correspondences among Blanco's works, as well as with his impressive constellation of literary, musical, artistic, scientific, and philosophical interlocutors, White Light serves in part as an introduction to Blanco's decades-spanning oeuvre and as a compendium of references to secondary sources. --Bruce Willis author of Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature: Body Articulations

The breadth and depth of interdisciplinary experience and influence in Alberto Blanco's work could make approaching his poetry a daunting proposition. An accomplished artist and musician, trained chemist, and experienced translator, Blanco draws on a wide range of sources among which he rejects rigid boundaries. Ronald Friis provides not only an insightful tracing of influences, themes, and dynamics in Blanco's poetry but also a well developed and integrated reading of critics and theory to accompany his analysis. The result is an intelligent, insightful, and accessible consideration of the work of one of Mexico's most accomplished contemporary intellectuals, artists and poets. --Cecelia J. Cavanaugh author of Lorca's Drawings and Poems: Forming the Eye of the Reader A thoughtfully organized, deep engagement that illuminates and contextualizes correspondences among Blanco's works, as well as with his impressive constellation of literary, musical, artistic, scientific, and philosophical interlocutors, White Light serves in part as an introduction to Blanco's decades-spanning oeuvre and as a compendium of references to secondary sources. --Bruce Willis author of Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature: Body Articulations

"""The breadth and depth of interdisciplinary experience and influence in Alberto Blanco’s work could make approaching his poetry a daunting proposition. An accomplished artist and musician, trained chemist, and experienced translator, Blanco draws on a wide range of sources among which he rejects rigid boundaries. Ronald Friis provides not only an insightful tracing of influences, themes, and dynamics in Blanco’s poetry but also a well developed and integrated reading of critics and theory to accompany his analysis. The result is an intelligent, insightful, and accessible consideration of the work of one of Mexico’s most accomplished contemporary intellectuals, artists, and poets.""— Cecelia J. Cavanaugh, author of Lorca's Drawings and Poems: Forming the Eye of the Reader ""A thoughtfully organized, deep engagement that illuminates and contextualizes correspondences among Blanco’s works, as well as with his impressive constellation of literary, musical, artistic, scientific, and philosophical interlocutors, White Light serves in part as an introduction to Blanco’s decades-spanning oeuvre and as a compendium of references to secondary sources."" — Bruce Willis, author of Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature: Body Articulations"

"""The breadth and depth of interdisciplinary experience and influence in Alberto Blanco’s work could make approaching his poetry a daunting proposition. An accomplished artist and musician, trained chemist, and experienced translator, Blanco draws on a wide range of sources among which he rejects rigid boundaries. Ronald Friis provides not only an insightful tracing of influences, themes, and dynamics in Blanco’s poetry but also a well developed and integrated reading of critics and theory to accompany his analysis. The result is an intelligent, insightful, and accessible consideration of the work of one of Mexico’s most accomplished contemporary intellectuals, artists, and poets."" -- Cecelia J. Cavanaugh * author of Lorca's Drawings and Poems: Forming the Eye of the Reader * ""A thoughtfully organized, deep engagement that illuminates and contextualizes correspondences among Blanco’s works, as well as with his impressive constellation of literary, musical, artistic, scientific, and philosophical interlocutors, White Light serves in part as an introduction to Blanco’s decades-spanning oeuvre and as a compendium of references to secondary sources.""  -- Bruce Willis * author of Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature: Body Articulations * ""The breadth and depth of interdisciplinary experience and influence in Alberto Blanco’s work could make approaching his poetry a daunting proposition. An accomplished artist and musician, trained chemist, and experienced translator, Blanco draws on a wide range of sources among which he rejects rigid boundaries. Ronald Friis provides not only an insightful tracing of influences, themes, and dynamics in Blanco’s poetry but also a well developed and integrated reading of critics and theory to accompany his analysis. The result is an intelligent, insightful, and accessible consideration of the work of one of Mexico’s most accomplished contemporary intellectuals, artists, and poets."" -- Cecelia J. Cavanaugh * author of Lorca's Drawings and Poems: Forming the Eye of the Reader * ""A thoughtfully organized, deep engagement that illuminates and contextualizes correspondences among Blanco’s works, as well as with his impressive constellation of literary, musical, artistic, scientific, and philosophical interlocutors, White Light serves in part as an introduction to Blanco’s decades-spanning oeuvre and as a compendium of references to secondary sources.""  -- Bruce Willis * author of Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature: Body Articulations *"

Author Information

RONALD J. FRIIS is a professor of Spanish at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His publications include José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows (Bucknell University Press) and Doble vía: Comunicación en español (with Tatiana Séeligman).  

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