Relational aesthetics, processual writing and poetic event in the poem “La nave” of Tomás Harris

Abstract

From the relationships between subject, city and poetry, this article explores some dimensions of the poetry of Tomás Harris in order to make a critical reading of the poem "La nave", published in the Crónicas maravillosas (1997) and Noche de brujas y otros hechos de sangre (2012). For this purpose, is initially specified a critical dimension of Tomás Harris's poetry as both relational aesthetic and process writing, and then proposes a conceptual displacement regarding the figuration of the poetic subject from the flâneur of modernity towards the trafficker of South American postmodernity. In this way, it is intended to specify the originality of the writing of Thomas Harris as a poetic event, in addition to evidencing the presence of an ecfrasis trafficker as a rhetorical quality for conceptualization and ultimate understanding of the poem.