Vicente Huidobro

Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948) is one of the so-called “big four” of Chilean poetry, which also includes Pablo de Rokha and Nobel laureates Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda. Author of over thirty books, he is one of the most important figures of the Latin American avant-garde.

Excerpts from ‘Sky-Quake: Tremor of Heaven’

Translated from the Spanish and French by Ignacio Infante and Michael Leong

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