Roberto Juarroz: the buried word

Abstract

Roberto Juarroz’s writing is based on simultaneity rather than alternation, it is word and silence, materialization and promise of different realities that the text shows or conceals between its lines, satisfied senses and possibility of meaning never satisfied, which point to a notion of the poetic text as distance never completely covered. Although this writing has often been considered a poetry of thought, a philosophical, metaphysical or cerebral poetry, ultimately these labels prove to be too rigid and narrow because Juarroz chooses a poetry understood as “open-air adventure”, oriented towards the search for the extremes that the human being can reach, a language that insists on its attempt to explore this territory, the depth, where conscience dissolves, words thin until they almost disappear, and there is the possibility that there might finally be nothing.