¿Ojos para volar? Crítica de la mirada en poemas de Enrique Lihn y Severo Sarduy

Abstract

This article analyzes how poets Enrique Lihn (1929-1988) and Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) elaborate, in two poems, critical positions towards the dominant ways of seeing, in Martin Jay’s terms, scopic regimes, dismantling one of its elements, the representation of the female nude (Lihn), or placing himself in new positions of gaze, fostered by a certain art (abstract expressionism) that, at the time of its emergence in the western pictorial scene, demanded ways of seeing that transcended the shapes and frames of the gaze accustomed to figuration and representation (Sarduy).