Translated from Spanish by Tony Frazer. Bilingual edition.
Published 2021. Paperback, 108pp, 9 x 6ins, £10.95 / $18
ISBN 9781848617759 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]

This volume is only the second English translation of Huidobro’s earliest mature poetry, the first work to indicate that there was more to him than the pale imitation of Rubén Darío that was evidenced in his first two collections of poems. Written between 1914 and 1916, and published in Santiago in 1916, it was Huidobro’s first extended attempt at free verse. It is probably fair to say that the book would today be mostly ignored, were it not for the author’s spectacular later career, but it retains considerable interest as a transitional volume, alongside the subsequent collection, El espejo de agua (The Water Mirror), also published in 1916, before he rushed headlong into the vanguardia and international modernism.

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