Poetry as erasure in Carlfriedrich Claus and Ana Hatherly

Abstract

Carlfriedrich Claus and Ana Hatherly visual works are outside what is conventionally named poetry. A poetry without words remains impossible for the defenders of writing as a logocentric practice. Therefore, the authors studied here invite a deviant reading of the contemporary poetry. They assume contemporary poetry tends toward iconicity and even the complete illegibility as a way of aesthetically apprehending the chaotic world. Since they neither follow the same rules of the traditional lyric, nor can they be read from those regulating principles, these poets deliberately obliterate texts implicate an unequivocal transformation of the creative and reading methods, notwithstanding the resistance from some lines of criticism.