Representations of the experience of exile in Argentine poetry of the 1980s. A tour of the Todos Bailan collection (1983-2008), by Libros de Tierra Firme

Abstract

In this article we propose to trace and analyze some representations that the recent experience of exile shaped Argentine poetry in the 1980s. To do this we will take a tour of three poetry collections that were related to the project of the collection Todos Bailan (1983-2008), by José Luis Mangieri (1924-2008): Datos para la biografía de un hombre (1983), by Chiche Diamanario; Blues de muertevida (1984), by Jorge Ariel Madrazo, and Cortar por lo sano (1987), by Juan Octavio Prenz. The thematization of the persecution of political militancy and the world of culture, the effects of genocide, exile and the struggle of the Human Rights movement, were a constant in the catalog of Libros de Tierra Firme. One of the main axes of its editing plan was the publication, on a deferred basis, of texts produced and in some cases published during the poets’ exile.