Abstract:
This study aims to reveal the relation between Teresa Gracia's poetry and the concentration camps. A twofold return-to-the-origin examines poetry as a creation ex nihilo, and the concentration camps of the south of France, as the genesis of her literature in Spanish. The poetry written following her return to Spain is analysed in the light of an analogy between the barbed wire fences of the concentration camps and the "shackles" of metered verse.