Manifestos by Vicente Huidobro, trans. by Tony Frazer Richard Scott This is a riveting poetry

This is a riveting poetry about loss and recovery

So what better idea than to run away to the nearest war zone

or disintegration

There is brilliance in here

of an absence (“i dance on horizons and don’t cast shadows”) then a fleeting presence - is handled brilliantly

Manifestos by Vicente Huidobro, trans. by Tony Frazer Richard Scott This is a riveting poetryIn 1925, Huidobro published this collection of manifestos to consolidate his position in the avant garde in the face of the burgeoning new Surrealist movement and also as a reaction to attacks from one Spanish critic in particular, a member of the Ultraist movement, who seemed to want to establish the Spanish avant garde as an independent force, free of the influence of this loud, self confident Chilean. The book appeared in the same year that he