How are words and bodies available in poem? How do you contact from your latitude, longitude and depth, from the verbal substance defining them? Fragile matter: poetic for the 21st century in Latin America and Spain aims to answer these questions through various approaches to the current poetry, taking into account the limits, conflicts and new conditions for our common possibility. To do so, several studies are proposed on dissident aesthetics that are opening up on both sides of the Atlantic, on the latest performatic spillovers of lyric discourse and on the implications of our growing transmediality. In addition to these, a series of inquiries into the poets of the 21st century and their intervention of the word by means of proposals that disrupt the structure of intimate and collective, sexual identity or family, creating alternative forms of subjectivity. From different national, cultural and historical horizons, these trials analyse common policies, understood as a symbolic and material practice that passes through poetic discourse. They explore their space for emancipation and their work with the new articulations of violence. They think poetry and fragility as a condition for resistance.