Alternative paths in Contemporary Mexican Poetry: The case of the anthologies Versas y diversas (2020) and Semillas de nuestra tierra (2023)

Abstract

This article analyzes emerging voices in contemporary Mexican poetry in two recently published anthologies: Versas y diversas (2020), by Paulina Rojas and Odette Alonso, and Semillas de nuestra tierra (2023), by Mónica Nepote and Yaxkin Melchy. The article focuses on two poetic aesthetics that are dissident with respect to hegemonic discourse: the lesbian and queer subjectivity of Rojas and Alonso's anthology, and the ecocritical subjectivity of Nepote and Melchy's. The article also brings the two anthologies into dialogue to reveal that their distinct aesthetics can be encompassed within a broader political and literary framework, which incorporates ideas from Rosi Braidotti's critical posthumanism and Donna Haraway's speculative philosophy.