Lily I\u00f1iguez Matte was the daughter of the diplomat Pedro Felipe I\u00f1iguez and the outstanding Chilean sc\u00fclptress Rebeca Matte Bello. She was born in Paris in 1902 and died at a sanatorium ofDavos in 1926. From the age oftwelve, she wrote a diary in French that was published in the same language with the \u00f1ame ofPages d’un Journal. Her poems were collected and published by her mother under the title of Brief Chanson in Paris in 1930. Her poetry captures for posterity, by means ofher careful and at the same time uncomplicated craft, her unique agony and human plenitude. Reading her poetry we are confronted to a non familiar experience, quite strange indeed, for we are used to a more hermetic and lessformal type ofpoetry. Lily I\u00f1iguez reve\u00e1is hers\u00e9lf, beyond her biography, as a sincere poet, without excesses, without affected rhetoric; as a profound and communkative human being, who aesthetically has the gift to reach spiritual and existential heights. With strength and simplicity, she overflows us with her immense humanity.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-608645","tnc_col_608438_item","type-tnc_col_608438_item","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n