Tergiversaciones

"Tergiversaciones" is a work by the Colombian poet León de Greiff, published in 1925. While it shares the musicality of other Latin American modernist poets, it stands out for its stylistic innovations. Greiff experimented with word invention, unusual adjectives, and disrupted language flow to convey symbolic meanings.1

The term "tergiversation" itself means an evasion of straightforward action or clear statement, essentially equivocation, or the desertion of a cause or belief. Greiff's use of these techniques in his poetry aimed to explore themes such as solitude, the tedium of existence, and the past, striving for formal perfection and a union of language with music.21