Write Silence, Silence Writing. Notes on an Avant-Garde Poetics of Absence

Abstract

Modernity has raised, among other controversies, an outspoken interest in establishing the coordinates through which the word, imperfect and dependent, sensitive, primary and impure form, can transform herself in content, thought, poetic essence. Since the dissolution of traditional metrical forms until the election of silence as a single solution, which would represent the possible more purified form, there is a process that is consolidated during that historic space-time we call avant-garde. Taking as a starting point the poetry of León Felipe, seeks an approach to the poetic purism whose more representative development occurred in the context of avant-garde of the early twentieth century.