La influencia de Emilio Prados en la obra poética de Tomás Segovia

Abstract

The influence of one exile poet on another forms the focal point of Eduardo Tasis Moratinos’s chapter on ‘La influencia de Emilio Prados en la obra poética de Tomás Segovia’. He traces a fascinating genealogy for the second-generation poet Tomás Segovia who started out under the influence of Emilio Prados, who was exiled from Málaga to Mexico City. Rather than reducing the poets to their shared exilic experience, Tasis Moratinos shows how their poetics are shaped by Heidegger’s existential concept of the Dasein and the poets’ attempts to capture the ineffable and transitory that is revealed in the world. Thus, they write in the tradition of the mystics, the Romantics and also the French symbolists, but in their continuation of these trends they always innovate by stripping back poetry to that which is its essence. At the same time, they are acutely aware of the limitations of poetry without being able to renounce it altogether.