STEPS AND VOICES / Eduardo Mitre 
presented this month
Steps and voices. Nine contemporary poets Bolivia, Eduardo Mitre, published by Plural. The author and poet notes that this book adds to and complements the earlier
The tree and the stone (1986). The leaders are: Hilda Mundy, Yolanda Bedregal, John Christopher MacLean, Eduardo Nogales, Ruben Vargas, Vilma Tapia, Benjamin Chavez, Monica Velasquez and Jessica Freudenthal.
Asked in an interview
, Mitre said of the publication:
"My reading is to give a description and interpretation of themes and experiences that communicate, and language or style of each poet. Furthermore, preserving its uniqueness, establishing a web of relationships-fact-similarities and differences between the works, both within Bolivian poetry as in the field of universal poetry. But there is one trait that sets this book: the (dis) continuity chronological ".
And to the question about how to recognize the turning point between modernism and avant-garde literature in Bolivia, the author said "It is clear that modernism prevails in our poetry to almost the second half of the twentieth century through the work of Franz Tamayo. Even a book like roses Net (1956) by Oscar Cerruto transpires that modernist stamp. However, there are inflections, such as certain facets or "edges" of the work Greg Reynolds, whom the image, the unusual image was created in the way that he understood the art, plays an important role. Another turning point, not break, it would be José Eduardo Guerra with breaks (1924), by its language, but poured into traditional forms, rather colloquial, stripped and deliberately opposed to nineteenth-century cult of modernism. But more radical inflection are given in the thirties. I mean returning to the beginning of this dialogue: Pyrotechnics Mundy clearly embodies a poetic avant-garde, both for the exaltation of the image or metaphor as the language of prose, the way of greguerías Ramon Gomez de la Serna, who undoubtedly had a decisive influence on our author. But by the book of Mundy, it should be mentioned Shipwrecks, Yolanda Bedregal, published, beautiful coincidence, the same year (1936) of Pyrotechnics . Parts of the book Bedregal are, even within their markedly narrative prose poems. What is more surprising that same year, coincidentally, Maria Virginia Estenssoro issued The deceased, a stunning poem in prose. Conclusion (only now and here I see and say in clear): the avant-garde poetry in Bolivia, inaugurated three women. "
Eduardo Mitre. (Oruro, 1943). She studied law at the University in May of San Simón (Bolivia). He currently resides in the States, where his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh with a thesis on the poetry of V. Huidobro. He is a professor and poet. He has published books of poetry:
Residence (1975), smoke
Fervent (1976),
Mirabilia (1979),
Since your body (1984),
The pilgrim and the absence (1988), Light's return
(1990), Autumn
Lines (1993) and
Road anywhere (1998)
