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Aguirre-Oteiza: This Ghostly Poetry (Toronto Iberic)
The Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poets war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetrys high cultural and political value in those historical conditions. After Francos victory and the repression that followed, numerous Republican exiles relied on the symbolic agency of poetry to uphold a sense of national identity. Exilic poems are often read as claim-making narratives that fit national literary history. Read more