Arraigo onírico. Tras la pista de la joven Eunice Odio

The following essay pretends to define the place of Zona en territorio del alba (Poe- sía 1946-1948), not only amongst the works of Eunice Odio but also within Costarrican avant-garde poetry. The previous is based on two aspects. Firstly, on biographical facts: her childhood and her first years of adulthood, especially the period of her lite- rary education; and secondly, on the character of the Poetics adopted by Odio along that book. The latter has allowed us to detail the surrealistic aesthetics she nourished from to evoke a sense of belonging, one that is tied to memories of her native land. Nevertheless, it is a contradictory projection of identity, not devoid of anguish, very different from the print of the “happy orchard” that had crystallized in previous literary discourses.