Equatorial & other poems
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Equatorial & other poems

Equatorial & other poems

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Vicente Huidobro (Author) Eliot Weinberger (Contributor)  

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This volume presents the 4 chapbooks published by Huidobro in 1917-18 and offers, at first glance, an odd mixture. Chronologically, we have El espejo de agua, written in Spanish in 1914-16, first published in 1916, but, to all intents and purposes not distributed until 1918; Ecuatorial (written in Spanish, although the author also made a French version, Equatoriale, which is believed to be later), Hallali and Tour Eiffel, the last two being composed in French. These last two-both marked by textual experimentation-were important for the rising wave of the new Spanish avant-garde after their publication in Madrid, where Huidobro had relocated to escape the war conditions in Paris. The 4 chapbooks were bookended, so to speak, by the French-language volume Horizon carre and the Spanish-language collection, Poemas articos (both already issued by Shearsman Books in 2019).
Avant-garde poet Vicente Huidobro was born into an aristocratic family in Santiago, Chile. He is known as the creator and exponent of the literary movement called Creationism (Creacionismo), which combined aspects of modernism with neo-platonism and the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. After studying literature at the University of Chile, he lived in Paris for about ten years, where he associated with poets and artists such as Pablo Picasso, Guillame Apollinaire, and Pierre Reverdy. Huidobro returned to Chile in the mid-1920s, founded a number of magazines, and ran for the presidency of Chile, ultimately losing the campaign. His most definitive works are Altazor and Temblor de cielo (both 1931). He died in Cartagena, Chile in 1948, at the age of 56.
  • Contributor: Vicente Huidobro
  • Imprint: Shearsman Books
  • ISBN13: 9781848616523
  • Number of Pages: 90
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x6mm
  • Packaged Weight: 146
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Shearsman Books
  • Release Date: 2019-04-19
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Avant-garde poet Vicente Huidobro was born into an aristocratic family in Santiago, Chile. He is known as the creator and exponent of the literary movement called Creationism (Creacionismo), which combined aspects of modernism with neo-platonism and the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. After studying literature at the University of Chile, he lived in Paris for about ten years, where he associated with poets and artists such as Pablo Picasso, Guillame Apollinaire, and Pierre Reverdy. Huidobro returned to Chile in the mid-1920s, founded a number of magazines, and ran for the presidency of Chile, ultimately losing the campaign. His most definitive works are Altazor and Temblor de cielo (both 1931). He died in Cartagena, Chile in 1948, at the age of 56.

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