Poetry and language in 'Altazor' by Vicente Huidobro

The act of language destruction carried out by one of the subjects in the w riting of "Altazor," opens both space and time to the birth of new signifie rs. For such subject, the systematic use of language sticking to the lingui stic norm, hinders the representation (the creation of images) and the refe rence to radically new co-relatives. Such subject is discontinuous and coex ists with others, in particularly, with a willful subject that keeps it all egiance to the traditional world view, based on divine transcendence. The l anguage operations of this altazorean poet are effected, above all, as paro dy; as transformation of idiomatic debris into signifiers; and as an allego rical use of language (in the sense suggested by Walter Benjamin). The alta rzorean subject proposes to orientate and sustain sentimentally the creatio n of new images (in the sense of the "fantastic universals" of Vico). In th is way, poetry becomes 'event' (Ereignis", as named by Heidegger) an activi ty whose fullness is achieved through its realization and consumption, in t he exhibition of it founding temporality.