La poeta menor

Abstract

In the horizon of Argentine objectivist poetry, also called “objectivist calligraphy” or “objectivity criteria,” the poetry of Gabriela Saccone sews its pacts and dissents. Since her first book, Half Birthday, published in 2000, through the yet unpublished volumes Anxiety Notebook and Other Poems, Diary of the Dacha and Of the Corridor, Saccone sketches the constants of her lyrics, in which three paradigmatic series of themes prevail: the series of the house, the series of nature, and the series of the potent poets. What follows is an analysis of how those series function and their connections with two canonical aesthetic traditions: realism and romanticism.