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La presente antologia recoge trabajos que recorren la extensa obra del poeta chileno Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948). Desde sus primeras obras bajo la influencia del Romanticismo, del Simbolismo y del Modernismo hasta su Arte Poetica, su manifiesto de principios en torno al Creacionismo. Se incluye tambien Altazor (quizas su libro mas revelador) que consolida el salto hacia la vanguardia que plasma forma y contenido: su argumento es el cambio y la renovacion. El lenguaje, la expresion y la constitucion de los poemas hace del conjunto de estos libros su aporte mayor a la poesia latinoamericana del siglo XX: La figura de Huidobro es no solo indispensable para pensar la Literature & Fiction (incluyendo luego a Pablo Neruda y Gabriela Mistral) sino tambien la continental. ... Read more

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A bilingual edition of EL ESPEJO DE AGUA, POEMAS ARCTICOS and ECUATORIAL by the Chilean poet who strove to compete with nature in creative imagination.Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) had few followers, but many disciples.Also contains Huidobro's lecture on Creacionismo, aphorisms and fragments of other poems; introduction by Gary Kern.Completely revised 1996. ... Read more

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Poesía para todos
La poesía de Huidobro hace al lector descubrir nuevos mundos creados especialmente para él. Altazor es el poeta cayendo desde el cielo a la tierra, tal como la mayoría de nosotros. Cada Canto del libro encierramisterios y tesoros que Huidobro nos hace descubrir. Un libro de cabecerapara contar historias y hacer que la imaginación no se duermanunca.

Libro esencial para los que estudien poesía latinoamericana. Libroesencial para los que creen que "la poesía no debe describir una rosa,sino que hacerla florecer". Libro esencial para mi. ... Read more

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good to have this book BUT
Huidobro--I discovered him back in the 1970s with a bilingual editon of Poemas árticos.I am currently using the Spanish and French texts--with occasional cross-reference to the English--as an aid in a translation of the poems intoHebrew for the Israeli reading public.As I read these poems in the Spanish and French I glancetoo at the English and note that many of the English translation choices are imprecise or simply wrong--sometimes reflicting a misjudgment of the grammar of the original languages.More careful editing would have prevented this. HOWEVER, the editors and translators have done a service in bringing his poems to the Anglophone public and for that they deserve our praise--

And the word became poetry ...
Huidobro is an outstanding poet . He gets touching the reader in the most intimate places of the soul with his poetry . To make a poem , said Borges is practise a minor magic .
And that is precisely what Huidobro reveals us poem over poem .
Please, get close to Huidobro's world and pay attention because you willbe surprised by his powerful poetic level.
And enjoy this statement of V.H. : "The untruth walks with velvet steps" .

Huidobro, fundamental para la poesíalatinoamericana
La importancia de la obra de Vicente Huidobro (CHILE 1893-1948 ) para el surgimiento de los movimientos de vanguardia en América Latina y, en general, en el ámbito de lengua española, ha sido reconocida hace ya suficiente tiempo. Huidobro es -junto a César Vallejo, Oliverio Girondo, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Pablo Neruda, Nicolás Gullén, entre otros- uno de los fundadores de la gran poesía latinoamericana de la primera mitad del siglo. Ecuatorial o Poemas árticos (ambos de 1918) se convirtieron de inmediato en modelos para la renovación de la poesía de su época en América Latina y España. Altazor es una de las contribuciones hispanoamericanas a la poesía del siglo XX. ( Federico Schopf )

where are the complete works?
Huidobro is a character. Having read most of what he wrote in spanish, I still miss a good translation of his theater plays. Hopefully made by the chilean foundation. I got a book on Neruda that was translated here in USand the name of the translator was bigger than the one of the NobelLaureate. Not to talk about copyright issues.

Poetry like you have never read before.
Huidobro is considered one of the top four Latin poets, he is certainly the least known, but in my view he is the best. This book gives a sampling of his best works, throughout his career, translated into english.Huidobro liked to take differrent words and images that don't belong together and invent new realities. In the beginning of "Altazor" his masterpeice, he talks of his mother who had, "flag colored hair, and eyes full of distant ships."

The complete version of Altazor is also in print, although I prefer the translation in this book. The poetry within is masterful, beautiful, and unlike anything I have yet read.

"Basically I love you

you are paler than an hour and the source of myth

your eyelids alone take flight

and you're more beautiful by far

Than a return trip from the Artic"

This is not just a little book of poems. Huidobro's work, words, and ideas are the ki! nd that take root. Phrases once read are remembered, and something new is found or understood with each reading. Ihighly recommend this book to anyone remotely interested in poetry. ... Read more

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Revised edition of a Latin American classic in a tour-de-force translation. ... Read more

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the best
if you are a fan of J Borges or O Paz you will be a fan of this Vicente s longest poem. Altazor retains a freshness that is surprising for a work almost 80 years old. As a contempory artist[collage] working in New Zealand I am able to add another tool to help pry open the sleeping eyes of my audiance.

Poetry for People Who Love Avant-Garde Latin American Poetry
Altazor is probably Vicente Huidobro's best poem. Who's Vicente Huidobro you ask? The least known of the top echelon of Latin American avant-garde (or "vanguardista" in Spanish) poets of the 20th century.

Impressive enough in Spanish, with its incredible wordplay and thought-provoking imagery, what's more impressive is Eliot Weinberger's translation. He's the only one who's ever published a translation of the entire thing (everyone else just translates excerpts); this is due to the incredible difficulty of translating some of the complicated linguistic games Huidobro plays with words, which Weinberger actually does a very good job of.

Four star worthy if you can only read the translation; easily five star worthy if you can read both the original and the translation. ... Read more

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Huidobro's main strengths are well described in the book... Ren de Costa's presentation is lively, condensed and well judged.' PN Review . ... Read more

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This Spanish-language study of the pre-creacionist periods of Diego and Huidobro includes the work of both poets from the beginning of their careers. ... Read more

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Aesthetics of Equilibrium is the first book-length comparative analysis of the theoretical prose by two major Latin American vanguardist contemporaries, Mário de Andrade (Brazil, 1893-1945) and Vicente Huidobro (Chile, 1893-1948). Willis offers a comparative study of two allegorical texts, Huidobro's "Non serviam" and Mário's "Parábola d’A escrava que não é Isaura." ... Read more