Drunk Ship

Drunk Ship is the translation from Spanish of the 50 pages collection of poems Barco Ebrio by Salvador Reyes Figueroa, originally published in 1923, Santiago, Chile, by editorial Nascimiento. It is the very first work of this writer.[1]

Contents

The book features a number of poems with marine subjects, whose titles are:[2]

  • Espejo
  • Evocación
  • Puerto
  • Taberna
  • Viaje
  • Barco
  • Sombra
  • Partida
  • Mía
  • Tea Room
  • Holocausto
  • Ruta
  • Soledad
  • Saudade
  • Pasado
  • Intensidad
  • Anhelo
  • Música
  • Cantar de los cantares
  • Peregrinario
  • Ciudad de oro
  • Film
  • El oso
  • Nocturno
  • Otoño
  • Cabaret[1]

Effect

Drunk Ship spoke about marine subjects in a casual style. For that reason, it was not unnoticed by the formal local cultural environment of its time.[2] García Oldini, for instance, considered it one of the books that changed Chilean poetry:

Ha sido el primero en afirmar que la poesía es música, y como tal no se piensa, sino que se siente... más allá de la conciencia en donde principia el hombre

He has been the first to state that poetry is music, so it is not to be thought, but felt... beyond that point of conscience where man starts

— García Oldini, Claridad magazine Nº 92, June 9, 1923.[3]

Arthur Rimbaud used the same title for one of his poems.[4]

References
  1. Armando Roa Vial (1998) Peregrinajes literarios en francia, Editorial Universitaria, 1998, ISBN 956-11-1386-4, ISBN 978-956-11-1386-2, page 147. Retrieved on July 1, 2009.
  2. Andrés Florit Cento (2006), El caudillo de los veleros, Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2006, ISBN 956-260-364-4, ISBN 978-956-260-364-5, page 29. Retrieved on July 1, 2009.
  3. as quoted by Alberto Rojas G. & Jorge Teillier (2001). Chilenos en París (Chileans in Paris), Editorial Universitaria, 2001, ISBN 956-11-1565-4, ISBN 978-956-11-1565-1, page 50, note number 28. Retrieved on July 1, 2009.
  4. Luis Enrique Délano (2004),Memorias, aprendiz de escritor, sobre todo Madrid (Memoirs, Writer Apprentice, about all of Madrid), RIL Editores, 2004, ISBN 956-284-412-9, ISBN 978-956-284-412-3, page 59. Retrieved on July 1, 2009.

Barco ebrio Antofagasta, 1963 edition by editorial Imprentas Unidas, Biblioteca Nacional (Chilean National Library) collection MC0011400. Released to the public by Memoria Chilena in PDF format.

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