Porfirio Barba Jacob El poeta periodista y la Dama de cabellos encendidos

Abstract

The antioqueño poet Porfirio Barba Jacob became a journalist in Mexico, where he worked as a reporter, leaving magisterial evidence in several of his reports. From a biographical approach, I investigate the aptitude of the empirical journalist, trained by the street's experience, to integrate his journalistic work with his poetic production. I study the figure of the Lady, a motif of the poem "La Dama de pelos arboles", which makes a mysterious and decisive appearance in the poem "Acuarimántima," and it is also the center of a series of reports in which Barba Jacob narrated the experience of drugs in Mexico in the twenties. He opened the dialogue between the streets, immersion journalism and the Lady to dimension its power and sense in "Acuarimántima".