Poetry
Onda
Not translated into English
Rogelio Sinán · 1929
Synopsis
A collection in two parts, which opens with a page where the poet calls himself a “bird without wings”: he had taken flight with another being toward the infinite, in search of truth and essence. The poems, mostly without fixed metre, string images together with no apparent thematic development or logic and leave the reader free to recompose them, while keeping, according to Panamá América, ties to the Spanish poetic tradition.
Context
The poet had written these pieces in Rome, and said in 1969 that he had kept them with rigorous care for a year before publishing them; Panamá América nevertheless spreads the two parts between 1925 and 1929. The collection appeared in 1929 in Rome, from Casa Editrice, with forty-five poems according to Panamá América, forty-four according to Acento. In it he put what he had discovered in Italy of the European currents, Dadaism, Surrealism, Creationism, in the same year that Ricardo Miró, regarded as the national poet, published Caminos silenciosos.
Who it is for
Poems in Spanish, with no published translation, reissued in Panama in the journal Lotería in 1964, then in a university series in 1983.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the first book of the Panamanian poetic avant-garde, the one by which the country's poetry breaks with modernism.
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