Altazor vicente huidobro aves velocidad del viento. Throughout latin america and europe, huidobro is considered one of the most significant poets of our century and is recognized as one of. Vicente huidobros long poem altazor 1931 is an avantgarde exploration. This file is licensed under the creative commons attributionshare alike 3.
Altazor, or, a voyage in a parachute by vicente huidobro. The aberrant forays into the political realm in his verse always seem like misplaced ideasto borrow roberto schwarzs termthat simply do not cohere with the thematic and formal thrust of huidobro s work. In huidobros epic poem altazor wood claims that the poet succeeds in realising exactly this goal, liberating language from the tyranny of representation and in so doing gaining for himself. May everything the eye sees be created and the listeners soul linger, trembling. Trayectoria vital del autor trayectoria literaria del autor. January 10, 1893 january 2, 1948 was a chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. The selected poetry of vicente huidobro is the first major collection of the great chilean writers work to appear in english.
Ars poetica may poetry be like a key opening a thousand doors. Pequeno dios editores y fundacion vicente huidobro, 2015. His masterpiece was the 1931 booklength epic altazor, a machine age paean to flight that sends its hero hurtling through einsteinian space at light speed. Huidobro founded the theory of creationism, which he expounded in the manifestos non serviam 1914 and manifestos 1925 and in the programmatic poem the poetic art 1917. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in. In this first canto, the poet introduces himself as altazor.