The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Latin America Otherwise) by María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

Author:María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo [Saldaña-Portillo, María Josefina]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2003-10-16T16:00:00+00:00

Yes, the first duty of the poet is to see clearly the people he has chosen as the subject of his work of art. He cannot go forward resolutely unless he first realizes the extent of his estrangement from them. We have taken everything from the other side; and the other side gives us nothing unless by a thousand detours we swing finally round in their direction, unless by a thousand tricks they manage to draw us toward them, to seduce us, and to imprison us. Taking means in nearly every case being taken: thus it is not enough to try to free oneself by repeating proclamations and denials. It is not to try to get back to the people in that past out of which they have already emerged; rather we must join them in that fluctuating movement which they are just giving shape to, and which as soon as it has started, will be the signal for everything else to be called in question. Let there be no mistake about it; it is to this zone of occult instability where the people dwell that we must come; and it is there that our souls are crystallized and that our perceptions and our lives are transfused with light. (227)

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