HALLALI

Vicente Huidobro

Hallali is the sound of the hunting horn.

It is also Huidobro's great war poem, a Creationist concrete poem talking about strange the emergence of the Great War, and the hope for the Great Peace to come.

Of the outset, he writes:

AUGUST 1914

             It is a harvest of frontiers

Over the horizon something is happening

             On Aurora’s gibbet the cities are all hanged

             Cities smoking like pipes

Hallali

                         Hallali

And it's not a song

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