ČO SA STALO (S) BÁSŇOU? (MINIMALISTICKÁ SKICA ZO SLOVENSKEJ POÉZIE)
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE POEM? (MINIMALIST SKETCH OF SLOVAK POETRY)

Summary/Abstract: In the article the author outlines the genesis of contemporary Slovak poetry since 1956. He presents the characteristic features of the poetics of the two most important poetic groups – the Concretists and the Lonely Runners. In the texts of Ján Stach and Ivan Štrpka he manifests differences in poetic procedures and in relation to the complexity of the world and the depicted reality. The author illustrates the consequences of depoetization in the poetics of experimental poets, which lead to hopelessness and the emptying of "creative" procedures. The method leading to a denotative experiment lacking poetic tropes and using a language that has lost, through sterilization, the ability to generate meaning and to stimulate the reading experience, has unacceptable consequences: any text broken down into verses can then become a poem. At the end of the essay, the author lists the names of poets who he considers (pars pro toto) artistically productive and whose works enrich the context of contemporary Slovak poetry.

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