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Oliverio Girondo #06 - Ex-voto
Girondo
published his first collection of poetry in 1922 (the same year that
brought us other cutting edge works, such as Finnegans's Wake, The
Waste Land, Trilce, The Enormous Room, Paulicéia Desvairada, The Marine
Cemetery, etc). In this poem, "Exvoto"– the Latin derivation meaning
"offering" –Girondo satyrizes the "chicas de Flores", an affluent
neighborhood of Buenos Aires. He pokes at their pretentiousness,
snootiness in a way that is likely chauvinistic; however, if we take in
its historical & cultural context, we do not interpret Girondo the machista,
but Girondo the general thorn in the side of a society that was still
struggling with all the classist baggage left over from a major
immigration to Argentina. Exvoto comes from 20 Poems To Be Read On The Tram,
which is definitely not his greatest poetic achievement, but its
importance is indisputable, since it pronounces the trajectory of
modern Argentine literature– both in theme & form –& places
Girondo alongside Vallejo, Andade, Arce & Huidobro in that group of
innovators that brought modernism to Latin America.
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