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This article discusses Juan L Ortiz’s use of thinking and aesthetical Classical Chinese poetry elements in his work as his political answer towards the problem of inequality among human and non-human entities portrayed by euromodernity, especially in his book el Junco y la corriente(1957). By integrating the formal T’ang poetical forms in his poems, Ortiz creates an outdoor poetics which enacted the concept of cosmopolitics vindicating the nature of the interdependent and egalitarian relation among all sentient beings who conform to the vital community.
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