Poetry
Los arcángeles ebrios
Not translated into English
Roque Vallejos · 1964
Synopsis
Brief, almost laconic poems, identified by numbers, several of them dedicated to friends, from Augusto Roa Bastos to Josefina Plá. Solitude, finitude, the being doomed to death and above all nothingness recur in them: in one of them, an immense night climbs along the bones and nothingness licks the temples. Josefina Plá, who introduced the collection, saw in its author a standard-bearer of nothingness, and Vicente Aleixandre noted that the drunkenness of the title was not confusion.
Context
The collection appeared in 1964, in Asunción and Montevideo, with an introduction by Josefina Plá, who wrote a preface or afterword for almost all of this author's books. It was his second collection: the first, published three years earlier, had drawn the attention of Juana de Ibarbourou, Alberto Zum Felde, Roa Bastos and Roberto Juarroz. The same year the author met Pablo Neruda at Isla Negra. Josefina Plá noted in his early books the absence of words that express clarity or light.
Who it is for
A collection of short poems, in Spanish, never translated into French; they can be read straight through, with no prior knowledge.
Prizes and reception
Praised by Salvador de Madariaga, Vicente Aleixandre and Pablo Neruda, three years after the author's debut.
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