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Animales en la obra poética de Fabio Morábito

Abstract

Fabio Morábito (1955) is one of the most important poetic voices of the second half of the 20th century in Mexico. His works feature a wide variety of animals that, due to the detailed observations of the poetic voice, seem to be representations of real, living animals. At the same time, they seem to be poetic beings that participate directly in the creative process. Based on these interactions between scrupulous observations of real animals and poetic reflections, this article proposes understanding Morábito’s poetics as “zoopoetics”. The article will also explore the relationship that the poetic voice establishes with the living beings that populate its world and how it defines and orients itself in this shared world.