The Selected Poetry of Vicente Huidobro

By Vicente Huidobro

Book Overview

Huidobro (1893-1948) left Santiago for Paris in 1916. There he co-founded the influential Cubist magazine Nord-Su with Guillaume Apollinaire and Pierre Reverdy. He then launched his own poetic movement, Creationism, and wrote as well for a score of avant-garde journals. Author of over forty books--plays. political tracts, novels, manifestos, poetry--he worked with Edgard Var se, Hans Arp, Robert Delauney, Jorge Luis Borges, and other important writers. Besides his translations, editor Guss has provided a biographical essay, "Poetry ls a Heavenly Crime," a lucid and helpful introductory overview of Huidobro and his work.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811208044
• ISBN13: 9780811208048
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: New Directions
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 0.9" x 5.7"