Jorge Teillier

In 1965, "driven by the impulse to shape his mythical space, he published Los poetas de los lares, an essay that reviews the work of a group of poets who focused their work on the province, childhood, and respect for traditions, inaugurating an important branch of national poetry: Laric Poetry. Laric poetry, or poetry of the lares—referring to origins or the frontier—represents the ethics and aesthetics founded by Jorge Teillier and conveyed throughout his work. This approach to poetry is characterized by a return to the past, to a lost paradise where the everyday and the pleasant contrast with the prevailing modernity of the time. Teillier emphasizes the search for the values of the landscape, the village, and the province, blending nostalgic images of lost childhood and the primal nature of the myth. Through typically simple writing, he proposed a return to a Golden Age where the lyrical speaker and the reader could access a purer and happier world, "a better world," as the poet himself described it. == Work ==

Poetry Collections Para ángeles y gorriones, Ediciones Puelche, Santiago, 1956 (downloadable from Memoria Chilena; reissued: 1995) El cielo cae con las hojas, Ediciones Alerce, Santiago, 1958 El árbol de la memoria, Arancibia Hermanos, Santiago, 1961 Los trenes de la noche y otros poemas, Revista Mapocho, 1961 (downloadable from Memoria Chilena) Poemas del País de Nunca Jamás, colección El Viento en la Llama, directed by Armando Menedín, 1963 Poemas secretos, Ediciones de los Anales de la Universidad de Chile, separata, 1965 (downloadable from Memoria Chilena) Crónica del forastero, printed by Arancibia Hermanos, Santiago, 1968 Muertes y maravillas, anthology, Editorial Universitaria, 1971 (reissued: 2005 and in 2011 by Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales) Para un pueblo fantasma, Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaíso, 1978 (reissued: 2005) La isla del tesoro; an epistolary poetry collection co-written with Peruvian poet Juan Cristóbal, Lima, 1982 (expanded reissue: Editorial Dolmen, 1996; third definitive edition, Descontexto Editores, 2013) Cartas para reinas de otras primaveras, Ediciones Manieristas, Santiago, 1985 El molino y la higuera, Ediciones del Azafrán, Santiago, 1993 Hotel Nube, Ediciones LAR, Concepción, 1996 En el mudo corazón del bosque, Editorial Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1997 ==References==