Jorge Kanese

Amérika Xur Sur

Language: spanish

Translations: german (Süd Xüd Amerika)

Amérika Xur Sur

        me kago en latinoamérica en letrinoamérika en laxinoamérika
laputamérica me kago en l’eterna américa con sus xanxos y sus zambas
(ndaxêi) sin rayuelas sin ralla-duras sin ©historia sin koyuntura: ndoikòi

       amérika es un grito bacío
       me kago en la kagada de xer o no xer funcionario argentino bolincho
rapâi paragua chiloka mexika-no nikaragüensis mba’e-añá nambré
mierda de kolores

       mierda xika
       kambiando naranjas por melones vidrio-ku’i por ansiedad espiritual

       opivo-katú no todo es kalentura

Jorge Kanese

photo © gezett.de

* 08.08.1947, Paraguay
lives in: , Paraguay

Jorge Kanese (born 1947 in Asunción), poet and specialist in microbiology. As Jorge Canese, Jorge Kanese and Xorxe Kanexe he amalgamates in his texts Portuguese, Spanish and Guaraní, the languages from the triangle of three countries, the "Triple Frontera" between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, and makes it a wild "Spanurguese". Léonce W. Lupette, his congenial translator into German, develops a mixed language that oscillates between German and Turkish.

photo © gezett.de

Kanese writes, as he provocatively calls it himself, "Porno-Post.Avantgarde", subversively undermines all discourses of power (under the Stroessner dictatorship Kanese himself was banned, imprisoned and tortured for "political activities") and thus stands in the South American tradition of the exuberant "Neobarroco". His poems are a linguistically unleashed celebration and release of everything repressed, a picaresque-performative wallowing in the dirt. This aggressive aesthetic of the ugly is a linguistic affection against the logic of judgment and statements of political authorities. It is an agrammatic, stuttering diction, a counter-hegemonic transnational language that joyfully practices the foreign and the other. For some time now, Kanese has devoted himself to the mutant recriticism of his earlier volumes.

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