Abstract

AGUIRRE MARTINEZ, Guillermo. Creation’s Poetics and Musical Foundation in Antonio Gamoneda’s Voice from his “mudanza” of The Flower Songs of Nezahualcoyotl. La Palabra [online]. 2022, n.42, e03.  Epub Oct 20, 2022. ISSN 0121-8530.  https://doi.org/10.19053/01218530.n42.2022.14392.

In 2016 Antonio Gamoneda published his translations ("mudanzas") of some of the poems written by the king-poet Nezahualcoyotl. This paper links Gamoneda's translation experience with one of reanimation of the word. The poet, as a shaman, gives the language its energy back. In other words, he revives it as if it were a living being. This exercise suggests a reawakening of the melodic properties of the voice as a first step carried out by the translator before reaching the final form of the words. The structure of the following pages will be given by key aspects/terms as cultic function, pharmakon, the nature of the poet or the dialectics between two different models of language.

Keywords : Gamoneda; Nezahualcoyotl; contemporary poetry; nahuas; musicality; poetic translation.

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