The poet and the modernist writer in the prologue of “Poema del Niágara”

Abstract

This article provides a detailed reading of the prologue that José Martí wrote for “Poema del Niágara” by Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde (1882), in order to go deeper into the foundations on which the literary and journalistic production of the Latin American modernist writer rest. It attempts to answer the fundamental question of the writer’s place in modernity, especially regarding his participation in the context of the journalistic space.