Una Poètica Dialògica: Atlas de Pere Salinas i Joan Navarro

Abstract

Pere Salinas and Joan Navarro initiated with Atlas (Correspondencia 2005-2007) a dialogue between painting and poetry. The book starts with a painting by Pere Salinas, which provokes a poem by Joan Navarro, which in turn provokes a painting. It continues this way until getting to 46 images and 46 poems. The concept of dialogism allows analyzing how alterity, the orientation towards a nonverbal answer, determines poetical writing. The poet, in his dialogue with each pictorial text, searches for new ways of expression that privilege the showing, from deictics to images, and this search leads to an experimentation that alters the entire poetical system. Time and space are not opposed. Painting includes writing and the poetical text spreads out on a surface, on the blank page. The essay analyzes the spatial literary forms, especially the colon, the way its repeated presence generates a continuousmovement, an arrangement that involves all of the poem's levels. A punctuation mark, that represents a pause, acquires a visual dimension and represents the dialogue of images, poetical and pictorial.