Jorge Teillier

Hi! Today I will talk about another poet, this time the chosen one is Jorge Teillier.

Jorge Teillier was a Chilean poet, the maximum representation of Larica poetry, a movement centered in the earthly roots, the nostalgia of the homeland.

Teillier was born in a 24 of june, in the year 1935. His homeland was Lautaro, a town near to Temuco. His experiences in the mythical south inspired him a lot of his poems. Other topics he touch is love in the memory, the childhood, and in a lesser extent, the political poetry.

The political poetry was one of his major faults, like said Teillier. He wanted to write more of that topic, but he didn´t felt comfortable writing that. He said that a poem never does feed the poor. He was more comfortable like a guardian of the Lautaro’s culture, against the cosmopolitanism of the 50's generation.  

The Jorge Teillier’s work is one of the greatest poetry of Chile, I think. His sensitivity, and the way simple and effective oh his verses, makes him very close to all the people who want to read him. Like Alfonsina Storni, I recommend to all of you.

Free topic: Alfonsina Storni

Since teenager I like a lot to read novels and poetry. This year I realized that I read almost men. I wanted to read a woman. In july I found an anthology of Alfonsina Storni’s poetry in the house of an uncle. That day I read some poems. I liked them a lot.

Alfonsina Storni was an argentinian poet and journalist. She was born in the year 1892. Her first book was published in the year 1916. Her poetry, in her beginnings, is very very melancholic, a constant pain for love. But after she enter to feminism circles, that experience changed her poetry. In those year, she was more confrontational, in a world extremely machist, dominated by men.

She was a single mother, added to her feminism, she was target of critics. I like her a lot, I loved her confrontational personality, and helped me to see another visión of poetry, besides of men’s vision. With her poems, I can sense her pain of live in a men´s world. I recommend to everybody to read her work.    

My best holidays: the 4th region

My best holidays was this Winter. At the beggining of july I went with my father to the fourth región. In that place, there are a great part of my father’s family (uncles, cousins. Near of 100 persons), family that I didn´t know before.

We first went to La Ligua. There we stay one night at the house of a cousin of my father. There were other family members, all of them very friendly. The next we went to my family’s countryside, in Los Trigos, a place near to Ovalle.

In Los Trigos, an uncle told me that he need help to work in a mine of gold. I accepted. The mine is in a place that is two hours from Ovalle. There I worked some days. In the mine work three people: My uncle, and two oldmans, one of 65 years old and the other of 83. The experience of work in the mine was great, and the talk with those oldmans change my mind in a lot of things.

After, approximately, one week in the mine, I went to Ovalle, with my father, who stayed in Los Trigos. In that day was the birthday of my godmother. In her house I knew like 20 family members. I saw features of them in my personality. I loved to know that part of the family.