THE VISUAL PROJECT OF ALBERTO HIDALGO. AN ANALYSIS OF THE POEMS OF QUÍMICA DEL ESPÍRITU (1923)

• Autor: Trujillo Carrasco, Hagi
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Lenguaje: español
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This article aims to prove that certain texts in Alberto Hidalgo’s poetry book Química del espíritu (1923) fall under the category of «visual poems”. Considering this premise, an analysis of these texts will be carried out later. In order to achieve this, theorical concepts about visual poetry proposed by Pamela Medina, Nelson Suarez, Fernando Rodríguez and Eduardo Chirinos will be used. In this way, it will be shown that the use of visuality does not simply respond to a decorative desire, but it is a necessary choice to increase the expressiveness of the text in a way that the verbal aspect could not achieve by itself. In other words, the visual poems of Química del espíritu recover the material reality of poetry and attempt to represent what is being said, questioning the limits of language, art and the life of contemporary man.