David Rosenmann-Taub
[1927-2023]
David Rosenmann-Taub was born in Santiago de Chile in 1927. His first book, Cortejo y Epinicio, appeared when the poet was twenty-two years old, and was acclaimed as a revelation. Since then, Rosenmann-Taub has published more than fifteen volumes of poetry, among them Los Despojos del Sol, La Enredadera del Júbilo, Los Surcos Inundados (which received the Premio Municipal de Poesía), El Mensajero, Auge, Quince, and La Opción.
The premiere of a multimedia exhibit “David Rosenmann-Taub: An artist in three dimensions” took place at the Biblioteca Nacional de Santiago de Chile on May 3, 2018 at the Sala América, 350 Moneda street, at 7PM . The exhibit closed at the Galería de Cristal on July 20, 2018.
Unpublished materials were on display: a photographic collection, videos with the author reading his poetry, playing his music, and commenting on his drawings. A short presentation about his life and works was screened, as well as videos with theatrical performances, songs, and dances inspired by his work. A number of his drawings were put on view and poems were shown with their corresponding rhythmical scores, a hallmark of the poet.
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NEW YORK CITY (April 2026) – The Hispanic Society Museum & Library (HSM&L) is pleased to announce the launch of The Hispanic Society Poetry Center, a new initiative that will deepen the Hispanic Society's dedication to preserving the literature and culture of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds through public programming, innovative digital projects, and advanced research. The Poetry Center is supported by a grant from the Corda Foundation and will house the archive of Chilean poet David Rosenmann-Taub (1927-2023). Poet and scholar Ezequiel Zaidenwerg has been appointed as Head of the Poetry Center, the first endowed position at the Hispanic Society.
A core element of the Poetry Center’s mission will be to provide a home for the archive of the Chilean poet David Rosenmann-Taub. Widely regarded in his native Chile as a singular literary figure, Rosenmann-Taub was described by Premio Nacional de Literatura laureate Armando Uribe as “the most important and profound living poet of the entire Spanish language.” Over the course of his life, he published twenty books, with a comparable body of unpublished work remaining. He was also an accomplished composer, pianist and draftsman, leaving behind over one hundred hours of recorded compositions and nearly a thousand drawings.
Tílimtilín, the new book from David Rosenmann-Taub, is a work on which he labored for decades. Its one hundred seventy-five poems are distributed in two sections: Tílim: psalms: ocean of fantasies. And obvious disillusionment. The power of fantasy against reality. Tilín: a warning bell signaling a true, at times apparently mysterious, reality. The defense of the true reality.
Cover illustration: the creation of the author, and relevant to the book's content: many eyes : a manifestation of certainties.
Published in December 2021 by LOM Ediciones (Santiago de Chile).
