La: Palabra Exacta - Miguel Angel Velasco.pdf

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Velasco, Miguel Ángel. La Palabra Exacta . Hiperión, 1998. La Palabra Exacta - Miguel Angel Velasco.pdf

If you manage to obtain a digital scan for personal academic use, the correct MLA citation for the physical book is: Would any of these be helpful

If citing a scanned PDF, add: "[Digital scan]." La Palabra Exacta

Velasco believed that sloppy language leads to sloppy emotions. In La Palabra Exacta , the poet acts as a translator of the human condition. The book is structured as a series of meditations on the impossibility and necessity of saying exactly what we mean.

La Palabra Exacta (published in the late 90s/early 2000s) is often considered his magnum opus regarding poetic craft.

To understand why people hunt for the PDF, let us look at a typical fragment of La Palabra Exacta (translated roughly from memory).