Drunk Ship is the translation from Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 of the 50 pages collection of poems Barco Ebrio by Salvador Reyes Figueroa

Salvador Reyes Figueroa

Salvador Reyes Figueroa was a Chilean writer who won the National Literature Prize 1967.-Biography:He was born in Copiapó to Arturo Reyes and Luisa Figueroa on August 16, 1899. His first studies are at the Instituto Comercial de Antofagasta .He travelled by the North of his country, then lived in...

, originally published in 1923, Santiago, Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

, by editorial Nascimiento. It is the very first work of this writer.

Contents

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

• 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

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. García Oldini, for instance, considered it one of the books that changed Chilean poetry:

Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...

used the same title for one of his poems.

External links

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.