Vania Valkova

Manifesto of the New Social Poetry Vania Valkova

The new social poetry categorically and forcefully counts on the aesthetics of the sublime as a transmission between the literary and the political, a means of returning to political radicalism in literature and society, demoralized by the aestheticization of the political. The freedom which we wish to return to literature is unthinkable without the unyielding insistence on the autonomy of the poetic in the face of the ideology of the market place, the state and science. This book collects seminal translations of the founding text of the Bulgarian literary movement New Social Poetry (Nova Sotsialna Poezia).