“Nacimiento de la pasión que se busca en el núcleo de su vida’’. Aproximaciones al sufismo desde un poemario de Francisco Magaña

Abstract

In 1992, Francisco Magana published his third book of poems Calendas, laMirada, under the collection “El ala de tigre” of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. 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, eramos amigos / de losangeles; Padre, dejanos / regresar alli, pues esa 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 sama, 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.