Memoria de lo real en Potlatch de Arturo Carrera

Abstract

When Mallarmé wrote “A flower!” and “the absent one from all bouquets” was produced in his text, he was proclaiming the realization of words, their reification, where all communication ran the inherent risk of not saying anything else. To name nothingness, though, is impossible. Perhaps the real opens a path in the poem, through other devices, translating the thing that dematerialized the world, making of money the number of what is, the monetary counting of forgetting, childhood, and death. It is in this sense that we a ttempt a reading of this experience in Arturo Carrera´s book Potlatch, which proposes from its title an idea of poetry as excessive communication, and not as a threatening silence that is to come. It is as if in the polyphonic scene of the poem, inhabited by multiple and varied testimonies, the names of all the flowers of language and of the world were said, and from this resulted not an absence of all bouquets but a new, mixed perfume, found perhaps in the rhythm, the graphing, the interrupted continuity of poetry.