Translated from French by Tony Frazer. Bilingual volume.
Published 2020. Paperback, 158pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $20
ISBN 9781848616936 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
Before attaining his poetic maturity — and this would be through poems written mostly in Spanish — Huidobro wrote these two collections in French and published them in Paris in 1925, the same year that a volume of his manifestos appeared (also available from Shearsman). The two books have never been republished in France and have likewise not been published in Spanish translation other than in editions of the author’s collected works. While they are in some respects a developmental dead-end for Huidobro, they do demonstrate his attempts to engage, in one volume, with the influence of Dada, and, in the other, with the influence of Surrealism. His later work transcends these overt influences and moves onto new pastures, but these experiments were necessary in order to get him there.
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