In this paper, we analyze the political sensitivity in an anthology of contemporary poetry in Colombia. The literature is an answer to the social events that reflect the country and the poetry has seen as a representation of the biopolitics and the thanatopolitics. The analyze´s corpus is the anthology Palabras como cuerpos. The poems, the mourning, the social memory and the oblivion are interpreted from the theory of emotional turn. We reflect about the social role of the poetry in a society affected for more than 50 years of armed conflict.