Cáceres, José Antonio. (2020). Figura. Edition, study and notes by Emilia Oliva. Text by Fernando Millán. Facsimile reproduction. Cáceres, Spain: Publications Service of the University of Extremadura (UEx). 209 pages. ISBN: 978-84-9127-060-7.

Abstract

Figura was the first experimental poetry collection that José Antonio Cáceres meant as a book. Written between 1966 and 1973, it emerged parallel to Cáceres’s evolution from concretism to lettrism, bordering on kinetic poetry, which influenced multiple forms of expression found in the visual poems that make up this collection. First edition was produced by Emilia Oliva and published by the Universidad de Extremadura (UEx) as a facsimile of the unpublished originals that were preserved by Fernando Millán for almost half a century. The publication of these poems, which are considered a fundamental landmark in Cáceres’s experimental trajectory, makes them available to a much wider audience.