This article proposes a spatial metaphor of development in Latin American poetry: a galaxy that expands rapidly towards the limits. It also analyzes the strongest centrifugal movements, represented by Residencia en la tierra by Neruda or Diario de muerte by Enrique Lihn. In general, it examines some exemplary decenterings of the poetry of the twentieth century as effected by the generation of the 1950's and the counterpart, the resistence to the attraction of the limits, that defines the following promotion, that of 1960