| Sumario: | This paper aims to reflect on the particular type of response that structures various Mapuche texts. Through the examination of a corpus of contemporary Mapuche poetry written by women in Puelmapu (Argentina), we will delve into how historical processes of genocide and state violence are revisited in these discourses. Simultaneously, we will closely observe how the text incorporates (and is sustained by) the foundational principles of Mapuche kimün. In light of this, we argue that poetry facilitates a spiritual rearticulation and political creativity that occurs in a specific manner within indigenous poetry. Thus, poetry becomes a part of the creative instances within the Mapuche world that, through words, enable a reorganization of its core elements. We propose to analyze these poems through the lens of the category biopoetics, characterized by a particular form of epistemic subjectivity that considers the unity and interrelation of the ethical, political, and ontological dimensions of what it engages with.
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