{"product_id":"the-selected-poetry-of-vicente-vicente-huidobro-9780811208055","title":"The Selected Poetry of Vicente Huidobro","description":"This book is the only major collection of the great Chilean writer Vicente Huidobro's poetry to appear in English. Drawn from his works published from 1917 to 1948 and presented bilingually, the translations are principally by David Guss supplemented with renderings by Stephen Fredman, Carlos Hagen, W. S. Merwi, . Geoffrey O'Brien, David Ossman, Michael Palmer, Jerome Rothenberg, Eliot Weinberger, and Geoffrey Young. Huidobro's masterpiece \u003cem\u003eAlrazor\u003c\/em\u003e appears almost entire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Huidobro (1893-1948) left Santiago for Paris in 1916. There he co-founded the influential Cubist magazine \u003cem\u003eNord-Su\u003c\/em\u003e 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駸e, Hans Arp, Robert Delauney, Jorge Luis Borges, and other important writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vicente Huidobro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811208052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811208055\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/1982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.20w x 0.64d","brand":"Vicente Huidobro","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44966114787583,"sku":"9780811208055","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cbc0226c-98bc-4902-8ba0-e49f54a2d357.jpg?v=1711158899","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-selected-poetry-of-vicente-vicente-huidobro-9780811208055","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}