Silence and melancholy in Cantiga by Jose Manuel Arango, pretends to dwell the problematics and themes that the Antioquia´s poet exposes in the text published in the city of Medellin in 1987. Directing his work towards the orbits of the text, the first chapter is introductory and is focused on constructing the central thesis of the text in function to biographical aspects and anecdotes, following this order of ideas: the footprints of the silence and melancholy trough Arango s path. The development on the body of the text limits itself to the proposals of Cantiga. In this way, the second chapter deeply exposes the form of Cantiga as it developed from the Spanish tradition up to the imaginative (avant-garde), and proposes as well a reading method of the book of poems by taking this into consideration.The third chapter attempts to contrast the frugal, fragmented and figurative style of the author with certain personal intuitions in relation to the process of poetic composition, materialized in the considerations of the authors that refer to the critical framework or the literary system where the work takes place. The paper work delves in all the poems of the book and its main virtue is the meticulousness in which each piece is studied and the idea he introduces about the relation between silence, melancholy and poetry.