Anti-poetry

Anti-poetry is a literary movement that advocates breaking the usual conventions of traditional poetry. Early proponents of anti-poetry include the Chilean Nicanor Parra and the Greek Elias Petropoulos. Parra, known as the father of anti-poetry, published his first collection of anti-poems in 1954, rejecting the conventional belief that a verse holds a mystical power. His poems have been described as prose-like, irreverent, and illuminating of human existential concerns. Petropoulos sought to describe the art of anti-poetry in his Berlin notebook, containing verses that included intentionally-made mistakes of prosody, grammar, and rhyme. An inspiration for many of his poems was the difficult atmosphere of the wall-divided Berlin where he resided. He had come to believe that poetry centered on love and desire, was too gentle for modern literature – that it was time for an anti-poetry incorporating anti-sentimental feelings.¶

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