Famous Argentine poets and poems? You know that in Wanderlust Spanish we love culture and especially literature, that’s why we not only teach our grammar, but also the best writers in the history of Argentina, here below you will find a list of recognized poets made by Wanderlust:
Alfonsina Storni:
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was among the first women to find success in the male-dominated arenas of literature and theater in Argentina, and as such, developed a unique and valuable voice that holds particular relevance in Latin American poetry. Storni was an influential person, not only to her readers but also to other writers. Though she was known mainly for her poetic works, she also wrote prose, journalistic essays, and drama:
Quiero un amor feroz de garra y diente
Que me asalte a traición en pleno día,
Y que sofoque esta soberbia mía,
Este orgullo de ser todo pudiente.
Jorge Luis Borges:
Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose tales of fantasy and dreamworlds are classics of the 20th-century world literature. Borges [1899-1986] was profoundly influenced by European culture, English literature:
Es, ya lo sé, el amor: la ansiedad y el alivio de oír tu voz, la espera y la memoria, el horror de vivir en lo sucesivo.
Es el amor con sus mitologías, con sus pequeñas magias inútiles.
Hay una esquina por la que no me atrevo a pasar.
Ya los ejércitos me cercan, las hordas.
(Esta habitación es irreal; ella no la ha visto.)
El nombre de una mujer me delata.
Me duele una mujer en todo el cuerpo.
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Alejandra Pizarnik:
was born in Buenos Aires to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. She studied philosophy and literature at the University of Buenos Aires before dropping out to pursue painting and her own poetry. In 1960, she moved to Paris, where she befriended writers such as Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, and Silvina Ocampo. Considered one of mid-century Argentina’s most powerful and intense lyric poets:
te remuerden los días
te culpan las noches
te duele la vida tanto tanto
desesperada ¿adónde vas?
desesperada ¡nada más!
Juan Gelman:
was an Argentine poet. He published more than twenty books of poetry between 1956 and his death in early 2014. He was a naturalized citizen of Mexico, country where he arrived as a political exile of the Junta Militar. This poetry went against the current, defied the established social and cultural orders, and challenged the neo-colonial condition along with modernity’s characteristic individualism:
yo no sabía que
no tenerte podía ser dulce como
nombrarte para que vengas aunque
no vengas y no haya sino
tu ausencia tan
dura como el golpe que
me di en la cara pensando en vos
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