A poesía última de Manuel María. Os libros que abren o seu canto final

Abstract

This paper asserts the books with which Manuel María renews his own poetic speech during the seventies and the titles with which he contributes to the change of direction that occurs in Galician poetry at that time. According to the author of this text, this new poetic language in Manuel María’s work already emerges in the book Informe para axudar a alcender unha cerilla, the poet writes in 1970, we can also observe it in the verses of Aldraxe contra a xistra and Laio e clamor pola Bretaña, two works written in 1972, continues and acquires body with the poem collection O libro das baladas, written in 1973, also manifested in the breakup forms of his most militant poetry (Cantos rodados para alleados e colonizados and Poemas para construír unha patria), and takes a giant step in his Poemas ao outono, that were born and reborn between October 1975 and mid-1976, twenty sonnets that open definitely the last creative stage of the poet, his late canto, a lyrical corpus that even within that period before the emergence of the eighties poetry, offers us books as splendid as Cecais hai unha luz, written in mid-1979, and Poemas da labarada estremecida, produced in 1980.