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Travel-log

Summary/Abstract: The travesía de Amereida travel-log was published in 1986 in an appendix to the poem: Amereida, volumen segundo. The author of a major part of the contents was Claudio Girola, although preparations of the publication took into account also notes made by remaining participants of the expedition. This group, which on 30 July 1965 gathered in Punta Arenas, was composed of architects, poets, philosophers, and sculptors from Chile, Argentina, France, the United Kingdom and Panama (Godofredo Iommi, Alberto Cruz, Fabio Cruz and Claudio Girolle, François Fédier, Michel Deguy, Edison Simons, Jonathan Boulting, Henri Tronquoy and Jorge Pérez-Román). Their intention was to reach the “new poetry capital” of South America, i.e. Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia). The presented selection makes it possible to become acquainted both with the manner of realising poetic acts, discussions concerning the sense of the voyage, and an account of its daily travails. Chronologically, the fragments correspond mainly to the beginning of the expedition (Punta Arenas–Puerto Natales and back) and its end, which contrary to wishes took place in the Bolivian town of Tarija (in time, the group, suspected of collaborating with Che Guevara, who at the time was seeking refuge in the jungle, became controlled by the army and an end was put to an unhampered choice of the course and organisation of the acts).

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