This paper deals with the transformations that occur in those sectors of the literary field involved in processes of democratic reconstruction. More specifically, it regards the relationship between poetic and political strategies in the Chilean context of the first decade of the dictatorship, a period whose beginning in the military coup d'etat of September 11 (1973) involves a political and symbolic fracture that will be represented in different creative and critical works. It proposes a brief approach to two opposing strategies: the one that tries to reestablish continuity links ?using the anthology as a genre? and the one that proposes an experimental and public performance of the fracture. Moreover, the paper closes with the mention of an alternative and less visible model of political poetics, referred to the interpellation of the reader. These are contradictory strategies that coexist in the Chilean poetry of the period and allow us to reflect on the fissures of the political function attributed to poetry.