In interviews and works such as the Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing!, poet and novelist Giannina Braschi explores fashion through haute couture, street life, classical mythology, and literary invention—treating style as a language, a public spectacle, and an expression of social change. Enjoy these Fashion and Poetry quotes by Giannina Braschi that reveal the connections of both art forms to our...
Un filósofo puertorriqueño lee a una poeta-filósofa Francisco José Ramos lee la obra de la poeta-filósofa Giannina Braschi como una práctica simultáneamente poética, filosófica y política. Su lectura forma parte de una conversación puertorriqueña más amplia sobre el lenguaje, la soberanía, el colonialismo, la estética y la libertad. Ramos también participa en esa conversación como colaborador de...
"The Poetry of Giannina Braschi: Art and Magic in Assault on Time" by Laura R. Loustau contextualizes Braschi's first book of poems Asalto al tiempo within the context of Latin American visual arts and literature. The full essay appears in "Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). Enjoy these excerpts.
Socio-linguist Francisco Moreno-Fernández explains translanguaging in literature. "In this essay, I will begin from a standpoint in which spaces of contact may lead to translingual practices, and where languages constitute a continuous reality in which bilingualism translates into translingualism and languages into translanguage. My contribution adopts an analytical strategy based on the text...
El género es un portento humano. Nace para crear otros géneros. Incluso géneros de ciencia, de música, de matemática, de poesía, de filosofía, de arquitectura, de pintura. Es el deseo lo que hay que despertar en la humanidad. El amor es un gran espíritu, como decía Diotima de Mantinea, la maestra de Sócrates. Nace de la necesidad y de la abundancia. Y está lleno en un momento y vacío en otro...
Genre is based on space, not on time. Genres create prototypes that can last for centuries. Like the creation of the prototype of tragedy by Aeschylus. Or pataphysics by Alfred Jarry. Their future is pregnant with thoughts. A new genre creates a space that future generations can enter and write—in that model, in that prototype—a new mode of thinking. --Giannina Braschi
I am interested in the creation of a genre. Not in the creation of a literary movement. Nor in being a part of a generation. Genre is based on space, not on time. Genres create prototypes that can last for centuries. Like the creation of the prototype of tragedy by Aeschylus. Or pataphysics by Alfred Jarry. Their future is pregnant with thoughts. A new genre creates a space that future...
Poetry Magazine presents the poem Antigone by Giannina Braschi. Poetry has also featured poems by Toi Derricotte, Carolyn Forché, Terrance Hayes, Juan Felipe Herrera,Jamaal May, Les Murray, Craig Santos Perez, Safiya Sinclair, Karen Solie, C.D. Wright.
Antigone, a dramatic poem by Giannina Braschi, in Poetry Magazine. "Antigone: Anti what is gone. If it leaves, it’s for a reason. Anti has to be gone. It has to go. It always goes against. Against the state— against kinship—and against myself. I don’t want to be the anti-clash. Anti has to go from gone. Gone has to leave immediately, without pause, without cause. I can understand the arguments...
The Waste Land’s 100th Anniversary Celebration, Madrid, April 6-8, 2022 The European Association for American Studies is proud to present poet Giannina Braschi and scholars David E. Chinitz, Ramón del Castillo, and Eulalia Piñero Gil as the plenary speakers of The Waste Land’s 100th Anniversary Celebration in Madrid this April. The title of 2022 EAAS Wastelands conference alludes to T...