Poetry
Afán del corazón
Not translated into English
Ángel Cruchaga · 1933
Synopsis
A collection of poems written from 1925 to 1932, according to the subtitle noted by Memoria Chilena. Rosamel del Valle, who reviewed it in October 1933, saw in it the central zone of the author's poetics: a slightly chilled world, crossed by vivid brightness, made of cold gardens and white underwater forests, where trees, stars, fish and bodies suddenly invade the page, and whose writing, born of an acid darkness, seems carried by a great cry for help. Memoria Chilena notes in the author's work the constancy of love and a sadness turned towards God.
Context
The collection was published in Santiago in 1933, from the presses of the Universitaria according to Memoria Chilena; Rosamel del Valle places it in the Cuadernos de Poesía of the Empresa Letras. The volume runs to fifty-five pages. The critic Mario Osses sees in this poetry a transcendent sadness, which comes from the absolute and from God. The national prize the author received in 1948 was awarded by a jury that included Humberto Díaz-Casanueva and Mariano Latorre.
Who it is for
Short poems, in a grave and imagistic language, to be read separately; no translation found.
Prizes and reception
For Rosamel del Valle, in 1933, an icy world of soft glimmers, where poetry finds its strange dwelling.
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