Poetry
La canción de las figuras
Not translated into English
José María Eguren · 1916
Synopsis
Short poems peopled with symbolic figures, a little girl passing with a blue lamp, Peregrín the figure hunter, a horse, gathered around a single axis: dream, death and night. The poet draws a world apart there, made of music and suggestion, in a language that he enriches with archaisms, regionalisms and invented words.
Context
The second of the three books the author published in his lifetime, between Simbólicas in 1911 and Poesías in 1929, it appeared in Lima in 1916 from the presses of the Penitentiary. The poet lived apart, and it was admirers, Manuel González Prada, Abraham Valdelomar and José Carlos Mariátegui, who urged him to publish; one copy bears a handwritten dedication to González Prada, preserved at the Casa Museo Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre. The book consolidated his prestige in Peru, in Europe and in the United States.
Who it is for
Short poems in Spanish, often hermetic, read for their images rather than for a story.
Prizes and reception
With Vallejo, its author is regarded as the greatest figure of Peruvian lyric poetry of the twentieth century.
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