The generational model and the rhetoric of rupture or how contemporary poetry in Spain is told: the decade 1960-1970 as paradigm

In contemporary Spanish poetry, at least three tools have worked systematically and in parallel that allow us to explain the functioning of the poetic field: generational models, the rhetoric of rupture, and the maintenance of the realistic continuum. In this article, we reflect on the use of these mechanisms, based on the programmatic anthologies that Castellet coordinated between 1960 and 1970: Twenty Years of Spanish Poetry, A Quarter of a Century of Spanish Poetry, and Nine Newest Spanish Poets. This analysis not only allows us to reflect on the relevance of these compendiums and practices, but, extrapolated, opens the door to understanding the infrastructure of the literary field and, consequently, to an in-depth understanding of a historical discourse legitimize it.