Huidobro, Vicente: Square Horizon / Horizon carr

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Square Horizon / Horizon carrby Vicente Huidobro.Translated by Tony Frazer(Shearsman Books, paperback)

Publication Date: January 15, 2019

Publisher Marketing:Poetry. Latinx Studies. Huidobro published HORIZON CARR in Paris in 1917 and quickly followed it withTour Eiffel(in French and Spanish; Madrid, 1918),Hallali(in French; Madrid, 1918);Ecuatorial(in Spanish; Madrid, 1918), POEMAS RTICOS, likewise published in Spanish in Madrid, andEl espejo de agua, a Spanish-language volume from 1916, reissued in Madrid in 1918. HORIZON CARR is heavily influenced by the work of Guillaume Apollinaire and marks Huidobro’s definitive arrival on the avant-garde scene in Paris, even ifit has to be saidthe volume is derivative. Huidobro’s French was good even before he arrived in Paris: he had been educated well in Santiago, but this would not have prepared him for the linguistic and intellectual ferment he would find upon arrival in the main seat of the international avant-garde. Many of his early French-language manuscripts show signs of corrections by his friends at the timethe French poet, Pierre Reverdy and the Spanish artist, Juan Gris, both being among them.