Review News of an old animal: the poetic of Jorge Garcia Usta. Twosided work commited to literary journalism

Abstract

This paper revises the thin line between literature and journalism that becomes much more evident in Jorge García Usta’s work and literary proposal. He was an outstanding Colombian poet and journalism, who perfectly mixed orality and writing as poetic and journalistic tools. Many of his poems carry the mark of the narrative, as if they were stories of ancient lands, whose lines remind to us old reports that were told and sang by jugglers from the Colombian Caribbean.

On Jorge García Usta’s poetics narration is configured as an unpostponable tool –through a descriptive, enumerative, colloquial, and photographic language, García Usta builds a work centered on the daily and the circumstantial (a feature from journalism), without forgetting the philosophic, the mysterious, and the transcendent (an element of literature) as a mechanism of search on his poetic estrus.