espanolNo importa cuanto se hayan esforzado las vanguardias historicas por echar por tierra las formas artisticas establecidas, la poesia todavia se entiende como un consumo suntuario y prescindible, y en oposicion a la prosa, que seria el lenguaje de los intercambios necesarios para la subsistencia. Este articulo argumenta como el trabajo de Parra, al cuestionar esta convencion, posee un caracter inevitablemente politico y marcadamente revolucionario. EnglishNo matter how much the historical avant-garde have strived to demolish established art forms, poetry is still understood as a dispensable and luxury consumption, unlike prose, which is supposedly the language of the interchange necessary for subsistence. This article argues that the work of Parra, questioning this convention, has an inevitably political and, more importantly, revolutionary nature.