In this conversation in Latin American Literature Today, Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer explore the relationship between poetry and philosophy through Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Octavio Paz, Giannina Braschi, and other avant-garde writers. They discuss reason and revelation, art and science, political imagination, Puerto Rican sovereignty, literary form, translanguaging, and poiesis—the...
The avant-garde writings of Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi have long been the subject of college courses and doctoral dissertations in fields ranging from Latin American studies and Spanglish linguistics to postmodern and postcolonial literatures. But these days her radical texts are popping up in popular culture and far-ranging spaces traditionally devoid of Latinx poetry and philosophy...
Enjoy these Fashion Sayings by poets, novelists, and philosophers.
"Fashion is a curtain that unveils the frenzy of poetry." (Giannina Braschi)
This list of fashion sayings brings together the buoyancy of Giannina Braschi, the wit of Oscar Wilde, and the social thought of Virginia Woolf, Charles Baudelaire, Thomas Carlyle, Immanuel Kant, Georg Simmel, Roland Barthes, and Jean Baudrillard.
This archival feature presents Giannina Braschi’s primary-source 2020 Q&A and poetry, where her reflections on social distancing and "asphyxia" laid the conceptual groundwork for her 2024 masterwork, Putinoika. Featuring her original reading list—including works by Franco "Bifo" Berardi and Donatella Di Cesare—the entry contextualizes her lockdown meditations within the broader ecosystem of...