Teillier, Jorge

Jorge Octavio Teillier Sandoval (24 June 1935 – 22 April 1996) was a Chilean poet. He was born in Lautaro, Chile and died in Viña del Mar. At the age of 12, he began writing, inspired by adventure books by authors such as Panait Istrati, Knut Hamsun, and Jules Verne, as well as fairy tales. Later, he was influenced by poets of Hispanic-American modernism, the creationist Vicente Huidobro, and universal poets such as Jorge Manrique, Rainer Maria Rilke, and François Villon. He is also associated with Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. For Teillier, the importance of poetry lies not in aesthetics but in the creation of myth and a space or time that transcends the ordinary while utilizing it. According to Teillier, the poet must not signify but simply be. He proposed a time of rootedness in contrast to the generation of the 1950s, which favored migration to cities.