Who wrote the epic poem 'Altazor'?

The epic poem Altazor was written by the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro.

Its full title is Altazor o el viaje en paracaídas, usually translated as Altazor or The Journey in a Parachute. Huidobro published the book in Madrid in 1931, and it is widely regarded as his magnum opus. The poem is organized into a preface and seven cantos, following a speaker whose symbolic fall becomes a journey through language, existence, and the limits of poetic expression.

Altazor belongs to the avant-garde tradition and is closely associated with Huidobro’s literary movement known as Creationism, or Creacionismo. That movement argued that poetry should create an independent reality rather than merely describe the natural world. As the poem progresses, conventional grammar and recognizable meanings increasingly break apart.

The work is sometimes grouped loosely with the poetry of Pablo Neruda or César Vallejo because all three were major twentieth-century Latin American poets. They are not interchangeable, however: Neruda wrote Residencia en la tierra, while Vallejo wrote Trilce. Altazor is specifically Huidobro’s landmark work, and its experiments with sound, invented words, and visual imagination helped redefine Spanish-language avant-garde poetry.