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report on a "nantzn"-performance at the medellín poetry festival
author:
mary luz mejia, colombia 1995
the austrian poet ide hintze is part of an innovative movement in poetry, and it is he who will turn our faces to the gestural language of the future, where the verses are converted into corporeal and aural forms. ide hintze, one of the great figures of the poetry festival, with cropped hair and an incisive and penetrating expression, is capable of transporting an audience into unimagined situations reachable through the probing of verses over unusual landscapes. otra!, otra!, cried the audience in the alfonso restrepo moreno auditorium on thursday when the poet ended his recital of his poem of the letters a and o.
(excerpts from: el colombiano, cultural, medellín, colombia, sunday june 11, 1995. translated from spanish by ad hoc interpreters & translations gmbh, vienna)
the austrian poet ide hintze is part of an innovative movement in poetry, and it is he who will turn our faces to the gestural language of the future, where the verses are converted into corporeal and aural forms.
ide hintze, one of the great figures of the poetry festival, with cropped hair and an incisive and penetrating expression, is capable of transporting an audience into unimagined situations reachable through the probing of verses over unusual landscapes. otra!, otra!, cried the audience in the alfonso restrepo moreno auditorium on thursday when the poet ended his recital of his poem of the letters a and o.
(excerpts from: el colombiano, cultural, medellín, colombia, sunday june 11, 1995. translated from spanish by ad hoc interpreters & translations gmbh, vienna)