White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco

The Poetry of Alberto Blanco explores the interplay of complementary images and concepts in his cycle of poems, showcasing his diverse background as a chemist, collage maker, and musician. Blanco's poetry embraces paradox and transforms into something more than the sum of its parts, similar to the phenomenon of white light.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 282 pages
Publication date: 12 November 2021
Publisher: Rutgers University Press

White Light: The Poetry of Alberto Blanco delves into the intricate interplay of complementary images and concepts within the celebrated Mexican writer's poetic cycle, spanning from 1979 to 2018. Blanco's poetic trilogy, A la luz de siempre, stands out for its diverse range of form and subject matter, as well as the poet's eclectic background as a chemist, collage maker, and musician. Blanco possesses a remarkable ability to communicate in the language of visual arts, science, mathematics, music, and philosophy, resulting in work that boasts deep interdisciplinary roots. This captivating book explores the profound ways in which polarities such as space and place, reading and writing, sound and silence, visual and verbal representation, and faith and doubt are interwoven throughout A la luz de siempre. Through these complementary elements, Blanco's poetry emerges as a captivating tapestry that embraces paradox and transcends the mere sum of its diverse and multicolored components.

Weight: 418g
Dimension: 153 x 227 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781684483457