The launch of the poetry book “Torpedos” was held at the Los Canelos Campus of the Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh) in Valdivia, created by the poet, anthropologist and UACh academic Yanko González.
This work brings together different poems based on academic situations and experiences that González collected over a period of 10 years.
The innovative proposal of this work is the torpedo format, which are different common elements such as pencils, ties, rulers, among others, which are used to hide the material of the exams. It is about these that the poems presented were written.
“Fatigue”
Regarding the creation, design and planning of the book “Torpedos”, Yanko González explained that “this is born from a tiredness of the obligation to learn knowledge in the teaching processes of formal education, many of them are absurd and arbitrariness covered with certain knowledge. The book is a somewhat erosive response to this type of process, where ‘torpedoes’ are born as a mix between objects and visual poetry.”
During the launch, González himself thanked the Vice-Rector for Research, Development and Artistic Creation and the Book Fund of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage, for supporting the financing of his book and making this long project a reality.
For his part, the Seremi of Culture, Arts and Heritage of the Ríos Region, Óscar Mendoza Uriarte, commented that “this work undoubtedly has very innovative elements, which were worked on for many years. So I want to congratulate the poet Yanko González for his work, which generates a new way of highlighting an object that is clandestine and frowned upon in education.
The release of this book was also accompanied by a display of the torpedoes and the poems that were created. In this way, all attendees were able to learn in detail the elements that make up the book and how the poems are inserted.