Laudatio
Laudatio

Summary/Abstract: Antonio Gamoneda is one of the greatest contemporary Spanish poets. About his works were written many monographs, studies and critical reviews. Some critics noted the influence of illustrious predecessors, such as Saint-John Perse, René Char and other poets of the surrealist family. But the poet himself explains, in some texts which constitute a real aesthetic treatise, some of his poetical models. He speaks about two poetical forces: the Turkish writer Nazim Hikmet and the North-American blues spirituals. Gamoneda follows the line opened by the representatives of the Spanish Generation of 1898, for example, Antonio Machado, who defined poetry as “word in time.” Gamoneda also states that poetry is “a composition in time,” but he adds a second dimension, that is, the perspective of death.

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