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The journey that poetry has taken during the last century has traveled between the idealism of the late 19th century and the deconstruction of the second half of the 20th after its twisted aesthetic during the avant-garde. It has been a fertile path in inquiry, experimentation and understanding of the poetic. María Zambrano approached poetry as a form of knowledge from phenomenology, something that Chantal Maillard took to more radical consequences when she proposed the leap from poetic reason to aesthetic reason. Throughout all this time, poets have debated between sentimentality, rationality, art, experience and the spirit that the Enlightenment left in their hands while the East entered our lives with its circular sense of time. and of becoming. Keiji Nishitani, the last great representative of the Kyoto School, commented that the poem "A single falling leaf, / autumn everywhere" is more than a rhetorical figure. It belongs to the field where the fall of a single leaf is taken as something absolute. When our gaze is set on something concrete and reveals to us a quality of life as a whole, we experience a sense of transcendence. The Japanese master stated that poetic truth and true poetry was just that sensation that in a moment takes us from something that happens in nature to a universal contemplation. This book reveals the breadth and perplexity of such a strange journey.