Ecuatorial: Equatorial (Bilingual edition) (Colección Vivo fuego)

by Vicente Huidobro, Anthony Geist (Translator), Miguel Ángel Zapata (Preface)

Ecuatorial se dispersa por el mundo para interpretar la marca temeraria del tiempo. A través de versos largos, mayúsculas caprichosas, y un terco espaciamiento, da cuenta de que lo que sobrevive ante la muerte es el poema. El cielo es una metáfora de fuego, y las calles por donde caminan los viandantes, una cárcel permanente. El poeta mira el cielo en llamas, y transita por la tierra hirviendo como un volcán. El poema viaja cruzando mares y ciudades llenas de humo negro. El poema salta el muro de la indiferencia, lucha contra la derrota y se asombra con la vida. EL mundo partido por la mitad, sobrevive. MIGUEL ÁNGEL ZAPATA

102 pages, Paperback

Published August 11, 2020

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 ).

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