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Content review of the first issue:

-Editorial which condenses the intentions above mentioned.

-Critical articles:

TESTIFY WITHOUT METAPHOR, NARRATE WITHOUT PROSE, WRITE WITHOUT BOOK: The Argentine poetry of the 90s.
By Tamara Kamenzsain.
Extract of her latest book of essays, where she analyses the production of authors of the nineties, through innovating techniques and their relationship with tradition, taking the works of Martín Gambarotta and Roberta Iannamico as the main examples.

INTELECTUAL SCOPE. SENRYOUS
By Daniel Link
Group of poems which take as a subject the circuits of the literary and academic fields around the contemporary Argentinian Literature, followed by an interview by Romina E. Freschi

I HEAR VOICES AND POETRY IS ALL AROUND
By Karina Macció
Essay about different lines of poetic production started in the nineties from an inner perspective that carefully organizes different ways of reading the different aesthetic moves of the present.

THE WAVE THAT READS
By César Aira
Essay about reading as an active process and an experience of vital importance, with the book as an object which suggests a physical and mental relationship.

PORTRAITS
During 2003 the plastic artist Eduardo Zabala invited people to make a written portrait of a person. The invitation called “¡El vivo retrato!” had a major repercussion and there were answers from writers, plastic artists and the general public. In this section, the portraits are published.

INTER-VIEWS
Extracts of interviews to writers of different generations which are producing now: Ana Wajszsuk, Silvia Vainberg, Leonardo Martínez, Walter Viegas, Susana Villalba, Tamara Kamenszain and Anahí Mallol.

BOOK REVIEWS
The Plebella team selected different publications of the recent years, corresponding to different editorial projects and authors of diverse generations and purposes:

 

CARLOS BATTILANA, La Demora, Siesta, 2003
By Walter Ch. Viegas

DANIEL FREIDEMBERG, Cantos de la mañana vil, Paradiso, 2001
By Carla Alanis

CECILIA PAVÓN Y FERNANDA LAGUNA, Ceci y Fer, Belleza y Felicidad, 2003
By Mercedes Escardó

CÉSAR AIRA, Mil Gotas, Eloísa Cartonera, 2003
By Romina E. Freschi

LIVINGROOM OF POETRY
During the last months of 2003, Zapatos Rojos invited to meetings that were held the first Sunday of every month in different venues in Buenos Aires. This project is called “Living-room of Poetry” and has as an aim, in principle, to gather people who work with Literature and Art in workshops, personal writing, exhibitions and presentations which are not related with the market or the well-known artistic institutions, but who work in a tangential circuit. The meetings are orientated towards discussing perspectives on Contemporary Art and doing research on different ways of performing in that Art, listening to voices which are not often heard.
The content of this section selects and compiles a series of e-mails that the group exchanged during September 2003, in which different anxieties which are related to the field of contemporary poetry are reflected from a refreshing point of view.
One of the activities started by this group was a survey about reading, which is included in the magazine to be answered.

CONCRETE FACTS
Consulting section in which there will be a list of poetry books edited in 2003 by different local publishing houses.