El poeta vanguardista Vicente Huidobro, padre del Creacionismo, revolucionó en la primera mitad del siglo pasado la poesía hispanoamericana. Esta selección de sus poemas, poblados de imágenes inusitadas y juegos visuales, nos adentra en un mundo a veces muy distinto al de todos los días, en el que aparecen gallos cantando sobre la Torre Eiffel y "barcos en peligro entre dos astros". Premio a la Edición, Cámara Chilena del Libro 2013
Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism"), which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them.
Huidobro was born into a wealthy family in Santiago. After spending his first years in Europe, he enrolled in a Jesuit secondary school in Santiago where he was expelled for using a ring, which he claimed, was for marriage. He studied literature at the University of Chile and published "Ecos del alma" ( Soul's Echoes ) in 1911, a work with modernist tendencies. The following year he married, and started to edit the journal "Musa Joven" ( Young Muse ), where part of his later book, "Canciones en la noche" ( Songs in the Night ) appeared, as well as his first calligram, "Triángulo armónico" ( Harmonic Triangle ).