Hay Otras Voces: Natura Loquens in Tino Villanueva’s Poetic Texts
摘要
This chapter aims at unveiling nature—conceived as an active and agential dialogic force—as a source of literary motive power in Tino Villanueva’s poems. Though deeply rooted in philosophical human existentialism with social hints, the author does not avoid ruminations that derive from a sensitive consciousness of the surrounding environment. Thus, a definite sense of place and belonging colors the texts with loci loquentes that help define the poet’s acute sense of historical loss and political injustice. The analysis, in this sense, addresses the extent to which Villanueva listens (not only aesthetically, but also rhizome-like) to the voices that come from the natural, other-than-human realms and learns from their empathetic, nonarticulated languages that are based on symbiotic awareness. Lastly, we will take a look at the role of physical reminiscence for the revisitation of the past using new feel-thinking strategies focused on holistic approaches. For this purpose, a selection of poems from Antología poética de Tino Villanueva (Lord Byron Ediciones, 2016) will be scrutinized and deconstructed through the lens of the new ecomaterialisms, namely eco- and perma-poetry, Donna Haraway’s “sympoietic kinship,” contact zones, and “ecotones,” plus Nancy Tuana’s “viscous porosity” and Stacy Alaimo’s “transcorporeality.”