Pluralities of a transcendent dialogue: Displacements of mystical poetry in colombia] [Pluralidades de un diálogo trascendente: Desplazamientos de la poesía mística en colombia

Abstract

Based upon the relationship between the mystical experience and the poetic word, this article investigates the way in which several voices of contemporary Colombian poetry have assumed different perspectives of this dialogue. After a theoretical reflection that approaches the notion of mysticism, from both its stable and historically conditioned features, the text analyzes poems by Pablo Montoya, Jorge Cadavid, Hugo Jamioy, and Judith Bautista, with the intention of proposing new routes of mystical poetry in Colombia that broaden the vision set by the Hispanic influence extended from the Colony until the beginning of the 20th century. In these displacements of the poetic word the timeless validity of a question about the spiritual, formulated from a plurality, —thematic and expressive—, responding to contemporary questions, approaching in some cases and departing in others from the dominant conceptions of the mystical tradition. © 2020, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. All rights reserved.