La Poética De Francisco Pino, Rara Avis En La Poesía Española

Abstract

Francisco Pino (1910–2002) can be considered as a “rara avis” in Spanish poetry. Having published dozens of books rather anonymously, and generally with small private presses, he began publishing through more renowned publishing companies in 1978. His various new editions, anthologies and editions of complete works give the impression that his poetry suffered from an evolution similar to that of modern Spanish poetry – with a special place for experimental and visual poetry, generally related to the historical avant-garde and the neo-avant-garde. Relevant is the observation that between 1969 and 1978 Pino published the majority of his experimental poetry – in this period he was searching for communication and “the other” – while after 1978 his poetry signified a return to the more private and personal poetry of his beginnings. Yet an analysis of Francisco Pino’s implicit and explicit poetical utterances, and of their application in the original, small editions as compared with his later works, reveals that tradition and experiment, religion and revolution have always coexisted in Pino’s poetry, from his earliest writings until his death. In poetry themes and forms normally are changeable and interdependent, but in Pino’s case his books always offer different and appropriate forms for the same themes.