“Nacimiento de la pasión que se busca en el núcleo de su vida”. Approach to the Sufism in a Francisco Magaña’s Book of Poems

Abstract

In 1992, Francisco Magaña published his third book of poems Calendas, laMirada, under the collection “El ala de tigre” of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Nostalgia for a past time is suggested from the titleand is reinforced by the opening epigraph, which belongs to the Persian mysticalpoet Jalal al-Din Rumi: “Estuvimos en el cielo, éramos amigos / de losángeles; Padre, déjanos / regresar allí, pues ésa es nuestra / tierra”. In thisbook, there are many intertexts and hypertexts referring to typical themes ofSufism. The call to contemplation, the relation between music and dance, theimages of samá, childhood and love as a path of union with the divine aresome of the more recurrent topics in this book, in which the Tabascan poet, rather than participating in a sufi mystical experience, amazed, writes abouthis discovery of this tradition.

Keywords

• Islam en México
• poesía
• sufismo
• Francisco Magaña