Poetry
La danza nupcial
Not translated into English
Raúl Gustavo Aguirre · 1954
Synopsis
According to Boris Katunaric, the book reads as the soliloquy of the cacique Caupolicán on the seventh day of his torture, and opens with these words: “Yo hacía las señales de la vida”. The chronicle in the journal Atenea quotes long passages in free verse, built on anaphora, in which the poet seeks men whose heads have crossed the sidereal spaces and announces the progress of languages, the continuity of life and fraternity; the critic hears in it the breath of a nineteenth-century American poet.
Context
Dated to 1954 by the presentation of the Obra poética, the book marks, according to Katunaric, a new turning point in the poet's voice. The journal he edited, printed in about five hundred copies, made the translation of avant-garde poets one of its axes, according to the same article. The chronicler of Atenea ranks the author among the poets of the new spirit, while judging him still in the last waters of surrealism. An anthology of his poems appeared in French in 1984.
Who it is for
A book of poetry in Spanish, in free verse; only a general anthology exists in French.
Prizes and reception
According to Boris Katunaric, the 1954 work in which its author's voice takes a new direction.
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