Poetics of Descent in Colombian Caribbean Poetry

The poetry of the Colombian Caribbean contains several recurrent themes pertaining to this region: mestizaje , hybridity, cosmopolitanism, neoregionalism, “laric poetry” [poesía lárica ], identity, other - ness, orality. This paper examines the way in which several poets of the Colombian Caribbean (José Ramón Mercado, Meira Delmar, Jorge García Usta, Gabriel Ferrer, and Raúl Gómez Jattin) develop a poetics of descent , celebrating the conjunction of the epic and the mythical, sacrality and death, where the epic is understood as “mythical narration of lived experience”, founded on descent as a category for valuing the other, including the family and friends, in death or the celebration of life. These poets also reveal a “laric poetry” or poetry of the home and loved ones: which includes landscapes and the time of memory, identity of place, but also elegy. In these poems, memory is not tragic, but nostalgic. Memory is conjugated as specific remembrance, as a song to that which no longer exists; “flowered memory” of the absent image

• Tipo de recurso: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6651
• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/12734
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/la_palabra/article/view/7284; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/12734
• Palabra clave: elegy; poetics of descent; laric poetry; value of lineage; mythical; Elegía; poética del linaje; lárico; valor del linaje; lo mítico.
• License: Derechos de autor 2017 LA PALABRA