Poetry
Para ángeles y gorriones
Not translated into English
Jorge Teillier · 1956
Synopsis
The author's first book, made, according to Jaime Quezada, of poems written in adolescence at Lautaro and Victoria. The collection already establishes the language of everyday life and a gaze turned towards the sky, childhood and memories of the village, with images that will return throughout the work: a pond, water mills, iron weathervanes, wooden bridges. In “Bajo un viejo techo”, which Alexis Candia cites, the poet hears the walnuts of the walnut tree fall in the night, and the clock of the house mingles with a dreamed tree that keeps its green leaves; the critic reads in it the quest for a lost golden age.
Context
Published in Santiago by Puelche in 1956, printed according to Jaime Quezada in four hundred copies at most and long unobtainable, the volume establishes the identity of this poetry from the outset; it was reissued in 1995. Memoria Chilena has a body of work begin there that turns back with nostalgia to the landscapes and traditions of the countryside. Alfonso Calderón, cited by Alida Mayne-Nicholls, credits its author with creating a poetic mythology and reviving a scattered tradition.
Who it is for
Short poems, in simple language and a nostalgic tone; no French or English translation of this book.
Prizes and reception
The first book by the man whom Memoria Chilena presents as the initiator of lárico poetry.
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