José Vicente Anaya
José Vicente Anaya (Mexico, 1947-2020) is a poet, translator, essayist and journalist. A student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Anaya took part in the social and student movement of 1968. He is one of the founders of infra-realism, along with Roberto Bolaño and Mario Santiago Papasquiaro.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The second part of José Vicente Anaya's poetic trilogy, deeply rooted in the infra-realist movement founded in Mexico City in the 1970s, combining verse and prose, is marked by a formal experimentation anchored in the poet's life and his wanderings from the north to the south of Mexico.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
José Vicente Anaya closes his poetic trilogy with a rereading of Mexican political history through the memories of his own wanderings.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A seminal text of Contemporary Mexican poetry, inspired by the Tarahumara and peyote rituals. Included in appendix is the first manifesto of infra-realism, written by Anaya in 1975.
