Constelaciones poéticas: sobre algunas antologías de la nueva poesía mexicana (2010-2020)

Abstract

With the recent change of decade, we can turn our gaze to trace a concise outlook of recent Mexican poetry. As a significant sign of the poetics that have defined the work of young Mexican writers in the new millennium, I believe that the reflection on some anthologies can provide a firm basis for analysis. In these notes I offer a review of a selection of seven anthologies of Mexican poetry published between 2010 and 2019 to highlight some of the trends that have defined the national poetic state during this decade. The study is divided into two sections. In the first one, I sift through some theoretical and methodological reflections to rethink the function of anthologies no longer from the concept of canon but from the concept of literary constellations. In the second section I focus on the study of each of the selected works, with special emphasis on the proposals outlined by the anthologists in the prologues and paratexts. In this way, at the end I synthesize some of the dominant features of young Mexican poetry, especially from what I consider to be its political manifestation.