%0 Journal Article %T Poetry and Music, between Jos¨¦ Angel Valente and Mauricio Sotelo %A PEDRO ORD¨®£¿EZ ESLAVA %J European Academic Research %D 2013 %I Bridge Center %X Jose Angel Valente¡¯s work provides an essential reference to comprehend the actual literary fact in Spain. Not only his poetry and essays, but also his thought and his sthetic definition, occupy a very relevant place, in a wider artistic sense. As a result of a large and close relationship -in a musical and personal field- this poet gets also an important presence in the composition of Mauricio Sotelo. In this short text, I seek to overview the way in which the verse of Jose Angel Valente and his poetic and sthetic notions are revealed in Mauricio Sotelo¡¯s compositions. This will lead us to identify also the most important features -like a deep convergence of interdisciplinary references- that define Sotelo¡¯s music. %K Contemporary poetry and music %K Jos¨¦ ¨¢ngel Valente %K Mauricio Sotelo %K Poiesis %K aesthetics %U http://www.euacademic.org/UploadArticle/1.pdf