Blurring the Boundaries between Land Art and Poetry in the Work of Raúl Zurita

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¹A brief review of the term itself and the most important land art works can be found in Lailach2007 ; a more complete catalogue can be found in Malpas2008a. Classics on the subject are Tiberghieu1993, Kastner and Wallis1998, and Andrews1999. None of them quote Zurita's 10,000-foot line of poetry carved into the desert as a work of land art. Indeed, most of them do not recognize artists outside Europe and North America.

²For an interesting essay on this subject, see Buci-Glucksmann2003.

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Juan Soros

Juan Soros (b. Santiago, Chile, 1975) is an industrial engineer and a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic American literature at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. He has published the poetry volumes Tanatorio (2002), Cineraria (2005), Tarsis (2010), the essay Disolviendo las fronteras: Land Art y poesía en la obra de Raúl Zurita (2011), and ARA, máquina de memoria (2012). He is the director of the Transatlántica/Portbou poetry collection