Óstracon oridiano: the writing of brevity in the poetics of Orides Fontela

Abstract

The essay focuses on the poetry of Orides Fontela (1940–1998). It examines the poet’s writing in its inherent brevity, observes and questions its singularity in relation to the work of her contemporaries, and associates the nuances of her writing with those of other writers from different times and places whose poetry emerged through the brevity of the poetic word. To this end, movements of approximation, distancing, and (some) comparison prove crucial to the points raised in the discussions presented herein.