| Skyquake: Temblor de cielo Contributor(s): Huidobro, Vicente (Author), Frazer, Tony (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1848616414 ISBN-13: 9781848616417 Publisher: Shearsman Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American - Poetry | European - Spanish & Portuguese |
| Physical Information: 0.19" H x 6" W x 9" (0.28 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Temblor de cielo was written in 1928. A more unified work than its contemporary, Altazor--although published in 1931, that work was longer in gestation--this might owe more to its style of delivery: an ecstatic outpouring of words that largely revolve around the themes of love, sex and death. The Isolde to whom much of the poem is addressed is an idealised feminine figure--part goddess, part idealised beloved, part Isolde from Wagner's opera and part Ximena Amun tegui, the young woman who had become the poet's second wife. The poem is also a sustained lyric effusion of a kind that Huidobro had never produced before, and it marks the point at which his work moves on from the barnstorming avant-garderie of his younger years to a more mature style, albeit one influenced by surrealism, a movement which Huidobro had previously attacked.
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Contributor Bio(s): Huidobro, Vicente: - 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.Frazer, Tony: - Tony Frazer is the publisher of Shearsman Books, and an occasional translator from both German and Spanish. This volume is part of a series devoted to Huidobro, that also includes Skyquake, Square Horizon, Equatorial & other poems, and a Selected Poems. |