Bøger af Ben Bollig

Moving Verses analyses the relationship between poetry and cinema in Argentina. How do film and poetry transform each another when placed into productive dialogue? Case-studies include Argentina's most exciting and radical contemporary directors as well as established modern masters, with a critical framework drawing on contemporary studies of intermediality and "impure" cinema.

This volume brings together a generous selection of Aliaga's prose poems, the majority previously unseen in English, as well as a substantial introduction to the author's work and its context, both literary and political, by the editor and translator. Cristian Aliaga (b.

This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of "lyric" and "state" as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how poems come to speak to us about politics.

Presents a full-length study (in English) of the work of the Argentine poet and anthropologist Nestor Perlongher (1949-92). This book analyses and contextualizes his work whilst offering tools for reading and understanding the challenging and experimental poetry.

This book is the first to focus on the exile-poetry link in the case of Argentina since the 1950s. Throughout Argentina's history, authors and important political figures have lived and written in exile yet, conversely, contemporary Argentina is a nation of immigrants from Europe and the rest of Latin America.