Vicente Huidobro

  Vicente Huidobro (1893 –  1948) was a Chilean poet. He was an exponent of the artistic movement called Creationism, which held that a poet should bring life to the things he or she writes about, rather than just describe them. In 1914, he gave a lecture,Non serviam, which reflected his aesthetic creed. 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").

Night

You hear the night glide across the snow
The song fell down from the trees
And through the fog sounded voices
I lit my cigar at a glance
Every time I open my lips
I flood the void with clouds
                                    In the harbor
The masts are full of nests.
And the wind
                       groans in the birds' wings
     THE WAVES ROCK THE DEAD SHIP
Whistling on the shore I
          Look at the star that glows between my fingers

(Noche)