The poet Ernesto López-Parra excommunicated from the ultraísmo movement

Abstract

Spanish Ultraism had as a main goal to leave behind Modernism. Many poets that take part in that movement had been previously modernists, and that infects many of their poems. Ultraism, like Futurism, hates tradition. In spite of all that there are some heterodox ultraists: Gerardo Diego, for example, didn’t repudiate the past. Neither does Ernesto López-Parra. Both collaborate in Vltra, a magazine which tries to purge Ultraism of indecisive writers. The release of Paisaje de abanico provokes the expulsion of Lopez-Parra from its pages. That gesture relates Spanish Ultraism with International avant-garde. The end of Vltra is the end of Ultraism. After that, new and more plural magazines appear, promoted in many occasions by all those who were especially fierce in the persecution of dilettante poets.