seis sextinas | Fernando Pérez Villalón

“The sextina is a poetic form of six stanzas of six lines each, plus a three-line ending, which gives a total of thirty-nine lines, usually hendecasyllabic. Its main characteristic is that the final words of the first six lines are repeated throughout the poem, modifying their order according to the following scheme (…).”

As its name suggests, “seis sextinas” is a compilation of six sextinas written by Fernando Pérez Villalón and assigned to six artists invited to create a graphic work based on them. Thus, the publication is structured on the basis of poems interspersed with contributions by Fernanda Aránguiz, Catalina Bauer, Vicente Cociña, Ana Lea-Plaza, Naranja Publicaciones and Alejandra Valenzuela, to configure a new graphic and poetic composition.