Anesthetics of Metales Pesados by Yanko González Cangas

Abstract

Metales Pesados (Heavy Metals), by the Chilean young poet Yanko González, is a collection of poems focused on urban youngster tribes, which are described in a hyperealistic way. Metales Pesados is more than an experimental work, but less than a work of maturity. It forces to review the frontiers between literary genders and it is placed in the heart of a platonic polemic, v. g. the place of the poet in the polis, even though if this one is the polis of ethnographers tribes. Metales Pesados opposes the an-aesthetic of the marginal to the aesthetic of the "beauty", for it doesn’t deal with the beauty, but it attempts to create uneasiness and shock under a descontructivist pretension.