Altazor

by Vicente Huidobro

Altazor, que tiene por subtítulo El viaje en paracaídas, es un poema extenso que consta de siete Cantos. Fue publicado originalmente en Madrid en 1931 y se considera fundamental para la comprensión de la obra creacionista de Huidobro.
La poesia de este libro marca un nuevo devenir para el proceso poético del siglo veinte. En sus aurorales y tembloroso versos está mucho de su estética literaria: "Los verdaderos poemas son incendios. La poesía se propaga por todas partes, iluminando sus consumaciones con estremecimientos de placer o de agonía".

Genres: Poetry, Spanish Literature, Classics, Latin American, Latin American Literature, Literature, 20th Century

111 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1931

About the author

Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism"), which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.

Huidobro was born into a wealthy family in Santiago. After spending his first years in Europe, he enrolled in a Jesuit secondary school in Santiago where he was expelled for using a ring, which he claimed, was for marriage. He studied literature at the University of Chile and published "Ecos del alma" ( Soul's Echoes ) in 1911, a work with modernist tendencies. The following year he married, and started to edit the journal "Musa Joven" ( Young Muse ), where part of his later book, "Canciones en la noche" ( Songs in the Night ) appeared, as well as his first calligram, "Triángulo armónico" ( Harmonic Triangle ).