Dulce María Loynaz e Cecília Meireles are read as poets that share, with their singular poetics, a memorialistic and reflexive aesthetics, in the condition of symbolist poets untimely. This article thinks about temporality, knowledge and genealogy, main memory's functions, and examines Últimos días de una casa (1958) and Solombra (1963), poems-books on the problematic of the being in the temporality and the process of doing/undoing identity that occur, precisely, in the human time of memory. These poems of memorable fiction are studied in their different forms of composition and meanings when they pick up and preserve traces of offended, mutilated and deadly hurt memory in order to look at the pass and, also, to the future in a paradoxical poetics of a wasted and uninhabited memory.
poetics of the memory; traces; symbolism; Brazilian and Cuban poetry; Cecília Meireles; Dulce Maria Loynaz