The Cross-Border Condition in Experimental Contemporary Poetry

Abstract

This work analyzes the cross-border category as a compositional and discursive condition of contemporary experimental poetic writings, within an interdisciplinary and intermedia theoretical framework. The cross-border, as a topological metaphor encompasses formal, compositional, discursive and metapoetic aspects and can be defined as a prevailing aesthetic condition, marked by principles of displacement and delocalization as well as by the absence of systematization, hybridity and transmediality. The study analyzes recent texts by Spanish experimental poets (David Fernández Rivera, Giusseppe Domínguez and Alfonso Aguado Ortuño) in which cross-border is a form of aesthetic and cultural knowledge production.