Fernando Noy: Living Scribe of Recent Myths

Abstract

Fernando Noy is a poietic being, although he prefers to call himself an incarnate poet. His cultural yire1 started around the decade of the 1960s, first in company of Tanguito, then hand in hand with Alejandra Pizarnik. In the seventies, exiled in Brazil, he was the dona2 of the carnival. After his return in the 1980s, he was the maker of magic scenes where freedom became embodied. His poetry survived the superficiality of the nineties with intensity and affective complicities. He is a creative muse of our time and, even today, his pacts and wanderings in those years turn him the queen of that we once called under. In 2001, as if hugging the envoy, he compiled the choral biography Te lo juro por Batato (I swear by Batato). In this interview Fernando Noy, such an incarnation of paracultural chrono, reconstructs the adventures of a life in permanent carnival and, as a medium of a lysergic trip which landed on the neo-muddy waters of the Río de la Plata, retells that consecration of the obvious which is so talked about.