Vicente Huidobro

Vicente Huidobro ( born January 10, 1893 in Santiago de Chile, † January 2, 1948 in Cartagena, full name Vicente Garcia- Huidobro Fernández ) was a Chilean poet who founded the avant-garde Creacionismo. His poems were of great influence on the recent Spanish poetry.

Huidobro lived long in Paris and Madrid, was a friend of Apollinaire and wrote poems in Spanish and French.

Works (selection)

  • Canciones en la noche. Poems. In 1913.
  • Las pagodas occultas. Poems., 1915.
  • Horizon carré. Poems. 1917
  • Tour Eiffel. Poems., 1918.
  • Ver y palpar. Poems. 1941
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger (ed.): Vicente Huidobro - poetry. Texts in two languages. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. In 1966.
  • Obras completas. Editorial Zig -Zag, Santiago de Chile, 1964 ( 2 vols ).
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