La luna suicida. El corpus / cuerpo ultraísta en la poesía de Lucía Sánchez Saornil

Sánchez Saornil already had, when she ventured into the work of Ultra, an extensive career as a modernist poet, which she had to renounce to embrace the new avant-garde creed. The images of destruction, death and suicide that populate her poems in this period —perhaps the most significant is that of the “suicidal moon”— show that the transition was not easy, that she was driven by the fear of not finding that new voice, and that, despite the feeling of belonging to the ultraist brotherhood, despite her connection with other young poets who, like her, took on the enormous challenge of changing everything, perhaps because of her condition as a woman, she could not find a place in this brotherhood. Well, these circumstances give Sánchez Saornil’s ultraist poetry an exceptional singularity within the Ultra movement.