Recovering voices for the Spanish poetry of the 20th century: the writing on the margins of César Simón

Abstract

The poetry of César Simón is still maintaining the ungrateful marginal position. Although many eminent poets and critics recognize the Simón's opus as one of the most comprehensive and pervasive in the second half of the 20th century, it still has not entered into literary and critical studies. The persistent silence that hovers over Simón's work is a result of the difficulty of its clasification and of the peculiarities of its aesthetic principles in the context of Spanish poetry of the last century. This article attempts to bring closer Simón's work and thus contribute to the proliferation of views on this different poetics.