Date of Award

2026-05-01

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts

Department

Creative Writing

Advisor(s)

Rosa Alcala

Abstract

This thesis is a book in which an island is founded within the poem, an island imagined by a generative god and its doubling in the poet. This collection exists in a language that accumulates its grandeur and limitations when it comes to communicating with the divine. The project examines how poetic discourse fails to bring us closer to the power and desire of a god. This long poem, divided into cantos, brings together the cosmological and the vegetal with eclectic passion and radical use of language, a combination that brings it closer to the Latin American neobaroque tradition. The work proposes "ritualization" as an original critical category; ritualization is to be understood as a maneuver of a reiterative and performative nature that organizes discourse and structures the poem, displacing referential transparency in favor of semantic and symbolic density. Language ceases to operate as a communicative instrument and rises as a ritual act that stages - without resolving - the distance between creator and creation. In formal terms, the collection articulates a hybridization between hymnody and song, dictated by a liturgical voice that oscillates between the earthly and the sacred. This strategy is reinforced through the use of invocation, the intensification of the "verticalized" metaphor, and structuring repetition. From a reimagined vision of the Cuban landscape, a baroque cathedral in a distant field, and the resistance of memory, this thesis-book contributes to the study of contemporary poetry, as it expands the theoretical scope of the neobaroque with a new category that explores the ceremonial function of language.

Language

es

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Size

88 p.

File Format

application/pdf

Rights Holder

Randy Cabrera

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