Manifestos manifest / Vicente Huidobro ; translated by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huidobro, Vicente, 1893-1948.

Contributor:

Alter-Gilbert, Gilbert.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Green Integer (Series) ; 20.

Green Integer ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Poetry, Modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

119 pages, 9 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm.

Edition:

[First English language edition].

Place of Publication:

KØbenhavn ; Los Angeles : Green Integer ; [Saint Paul, Minnesota] : [Distributed in the United States by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution], 1999.

Summary:

One of the great poets of the 20th Century, Vicente Huidobro was born in Chile in 1893. As a youth he traveled to Paris where he lived for many years, befriending both French and Spanish poets such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Juan Larrea and Jorge Luis Borges. His manifestos, which crystalized his poetics of Creationism, were published in French in 1925, the year in which he returned to Chile to become the editor of a newspaper. During this period he ran for the presidency of Chile, but was defeated, after which he returned to Paris.

Manifestos Manifest contains autobiographical reassessments of his writing, such as "Manifestos Manifest" and "Creationism," more typically manifesto-like statements such as "Futurism and Machinism" and "Manifesto Mayhaps," and comically inspired poetic prose pieces such as "The Poetry of Madmen," "Tourist Advisory," and "The Seven Oaths of the Poet." Through all these one cannot but hear the voice of this great poet, declaiming, exploring, proselytizing, remembering, and discovering.

Contents:

Manifestos Manifest

Creationism

I Find ...

Futurism and Machinism

The Poetry of Madmen

The Need for a Poetic Aesthetic Made by Poets

Epoch of Creation

Tourist Advisory

Manifesto Mayhaps

The Seven Oaths of the Poet.

Notes:

Publisher's advertisements: [3] p. at end.

ISBN:

1892295083 :

9781892295088

OCLC:

43479057