Baldomero Fernández Moreno: Ciudad, deriva de la urbe

Abstract

The article raises a rereading of Baldomero Fernández Moreno as author of one of the first truly modern books of Argentine poetry. It gives particular attention to the publication of nine urban poems in 1915 and, fundamentally, in his book of 1917, Ciudad. The poet’s revaluation leads Monteleone to affirm that Baldomero opened a triple path in Argentine poetry: “the projection of an own personality on the face and the gaze of others between the tension of the individual and the collective, centered on space urban; the recognition of objects, as a way of situating the materiality of the world; the leeway as poetic discourse and social self-consciousness”.