The weight of the coins in the poetry of Fernanda Laguna y Arturo Carrera

Abstract

In this jointly written article we will read some poems belonging to the poetry gathered in Control o no control (2012) by Fernanda Laguna, an Argentine poet who emerges in the late nineties, along with other Potlatch (2004) poems by Arturo Carrera, also an Argentine poet who broke into the field of national (and Latin American) poetry much earlier, in the early 1970s. It will be from these two poets with very different traits and writing paths that we will think, and today more than ever, the following questions: a) how national poetry is linked to the context of economic, political and cultural urgency of the two thousand years; b) what strategies and theories do these authors deploy within their texts to show the conflictive relationships between poetry and money in a national context in which the advances of neoliberalism threaten to make them invisible all the time; c) if with these ways of making the relationships between poetry and money visible, a sense of the political does not emerge from within the poetry of these authors, which broadens the way of reading the political in national poetry.