Great artists, like great scientists, are a necessity. They reveal truths essential to mankind if it is to advance. Through intellect, emotion, sound, rhythm, and line, they impart their extraordinary knowledge to us and lead us to understand the laws they derive from it. They cast a new light on the interrelation between the human condition and the mysteries of nature. David Rosenmann-Taub is such an artist.
A poet, composer, and pianist, he has said: "The piano and writing are as much a part of me as my body." For him language and music are intimately, and uniquely, intertwined. He is also a graphic artist of stunning expressivity. His life was always entirely devoted to artistic creation.
The Corda Foundation, a tax-exempt public charity, was organized in 2000 by a group of writers, artists, educators and other professionals who feel strongly that the works of Rosenmann-Taub must be preserved and must receive the attention they merit.
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 Over the course of his life, he published twenty books, with a comparable body of unpublished work remaining.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).
The poet's book, Jornadas, published by LOM Ediciones, was launched at the opening of the exhibit “David Rosenmann-Taub: An Artist in Three Dimensions” in May, 2018 in Santiago de Chile. The book contains a collection of poems from 1962 until the present.
Spectator judge, I retreat and advance through various journeys of my poetic creation. (David Rosenmann-Taub)
Jornadas was chosen by El Mercurio as one of the best books of 2018.
