Abstract
This article explores the work of a group of Colombian contemporary poets from a double perspective: on the one hand, it explores the contradictions that the actual crisis of poetry entails (its marginalization as an artistic form in the context of a cultural industry that privileges other literary forms) and, on the other, the double pressure this poetry is subject to, torn between the will to sing, the discovery that poetry is a specific form of knowledge that gives a glimpse of a different, more comprehensive, reality than social reality, and a critical intention, which conceives poetry as a tool for social criticism.
Keywords
Colombian contemporary poetry; modern poetry; counter-reality; imagination; everyday life