The Plant of the Poem. Nature, Genre and Affection in Venezuelan Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Abstract

The question of nature and its representation runs through the history of Latin American literature. This article proposes a reading of some Venezuelan poets of the 20th and 21st centuries to reflect on the existence of a thinking writing (Nascimento) that imagines and proposes another vision of the natural, vegetable, animal world, against the current of the instituted masculine one, that gives account of a thought that operates from feelings, listening and affections and that dehierarchizes the discourse of the species and the classificatory will of anthropocentrism. Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva proposes the space of the plain as an expressive and audible territory that reveals a world of unthinkable connections for the human being; Luz Machado proposes a thought about the river where the limits between species are erased and the poem itself, with its song, is incorporated into the fluvial current; Yolanda Pantin recognizes in the family archive the presence of the plant as a tense matter between violence, experimentation and care.