Great Poets from Chile

Vicente Huidrobo

Last month´s poll was not as easy as you thought it was. The famous poet who is buried in Cartagena is not Pablo Neruda; he and his last wife were buried in the garden of his house in Isla Negra, about 20 minutes from Casa Marin on the coast.

The Poet who is indeed buried in Cartagena is Vicente Huidrobo. He was born in Santiago in 1893 and died in 1948. He now rests in the small coastal town of Cartagena. Here is one of his best known poems:

“Ars Poetica”:

Let Poetry be like a key
Opening a thousand doors
A leaf falls; something flies by;
Let all the eyes sees be created
And the soul of the listener tremble.

Invent new worlds and watch your word;
The adjective, when it doesn´t give life, kills it.

We are in the age of nerves.
The muscle hangs,
like a memory, in museums;
But we are not weaker for it:
True vigor
Resides in the head

Oh Poets, why sing of roses!
Let them flower in your poems;

For us alone
Do all things live beneath the Sun.

The Poet is a little god

From the Mirror of Water, Vicente Huidrobo, 1916

Viento Pacifico

“Viento Pacifico” – Exposition dedicated to Women, Wine and Poetry

Roberto Pizarro is one of the greatest artists from Isla Negra. Isla Negra is the place where the famous Chilean Poet, and winner of the noble price in literature, Pablo Neruda, spent the most of his life and where he wrote his most famous poems. It is in this place where Roberto Pizarro got inspired by the ocean and where he expresses his passion for sculptures, poetry, music, wind, women and wine. Roberto is a very interesting man. Simple, loving and always happy! We just love him! His arts are close related to our wines and our philosophy, his passion is our pure passion.

On Saturday 12th of June it was his big day. It was the inauguration of his exposition together with Francy Huenchuñir, “Viento Pacifico” (“The Pacific Wind), in the House of Pablo Neruda in Isla Negra. Roberto is converting his passion into sculptures of figureheads (the sculptures that are at the front of a ship), made out of cypress wood. He dedicated 7 months to this exposition, inspired by his emotions for land and its elements.

Francy Huenchuñir started working as an artist when she was fifteen years old. The art of Francy is inspired by her origin and her ancestor’s heritage of the Mapuches. Earth, Wine, Water and fire are the foundation of the feminine world of the germination, the sacrifices and birth, integrated with cosmic vision elements which in their way transform in the cycle of live, the ritual of harvesting and the transmutation of wine. Each piece of Huenchuñir´s art tunes with the ideology of the Machi, the movement of nature, the music and the drunkenness. Neruda, the poets of the senses, is inspiring her work. Her work is dedicated to all the women on earth.

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