Vol. 72 No. 3-4 (2019): EGAN
AZTERKETA LITERARIOAK

JosAnton Artze Harzabal: the environment and poetry (1969-1979)

Published 2021-12-01

Keywords

  • JosAnton Artze, Harzabal, the Basque Cultural Front, Ez Dok Amai- ru, Counterculture, experimental poetry.

How to Cite

Oronoz Anchordoqui, B. (2021). JosAnton Artze Harzabal: the environment and poetry (1969-1979). GAN, 72(3-4). etrieved from http://ojs.i2basque.eus/index.php/egan/article/view/4596

Abstract

  • When JosAnton Artze adopted the pseudonym of Harzabal he was living in a
    very special historical moment. Socio-economic and political changes were ta-
    king place worlwide in the 60s. The Basque Country was under the repressive
    Franco´s regime and after the first years of repression, the Basque culture star-
    ted to sow the seeds of the countrys renewal; the poet contributed to this task
    with the music of the group Ez Dok Amairu (1965-1972). On the other hand,
    experimentation has been a fundamental feature of Artze, since his beginning he
    had looked for another way to make poetry, putting everything in doubt, from
    the writing support of the poem to the form it can acquire or its sonority
    (working on visual or phonetic poetry). Regarding the experimental trend, to-
    gether with his brother Jesus Mari, he recovered the txalaparta from oblivion
    and bring it to fame by modernizing it. This being so, I will first describe the
    poet´s closest environment at the time that the pseudonym of Harzabal was
    adopted, and then I will present the poetry books he published then and his
    shows.