Abstract

The boundaries between prose and verse, the presence of different characters’ voices, wich act as semi-heteronyms and orbit the texts giving a certain distance to the poetic self, the journey into the past as a revelatory experience and the insuffiency of word as the means of expression are the principal subjects of Álvaro Mutiss poetry. In this essay, the concept of epiphany, understood as a representation of the perfect order or as an indecipherable formula of an enigma in the face of the agonistic circumstances of disaster, unifies the colombians poetic work.