Skyquake: Temblor de cielo

by Vicente Huidobro

Temblor de cielo was written in 1928. A more unified work than its contemporary, Altazor--although published in 1931, that work was longer in gestation--this might owe more to its style of delivery: an ecstatic outpouring of words that largely revolve around the themes of love, sex and death. The Isolde to whom much of the poem is addressed is an idealised feminine figure--part goddess, part idealised beloved, part Isolde from Wagner's opera and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848616414
• ISBN13: 9781848616417
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"