The improper voice: poetry and politics

Abstract

This article intends to explore some cleavages of creation, or the inscription of political voices in Latin American poetry, departing from processes of appropriation and expropriation, associated with the potentialities of an anachronistic figure, singing. In this sense, being inside or outside singing presupposes both the homogeneity of certain tones    – the elegiac, the imperative – or their disowning, and the assumption of a sonorous point of view in relation to the idea of a historical temporality. This would function as a filter, as an eardrum that silences the other voices under the weight of metaphors sustained in nature, or as a perforated surface filtering through the voice of the others.