Aesthetics of Equilibrium: The Vanguard Poetics of Vicente Huidobro and Mário de Andrade

Contents

Contents vii List of Abbreviations ix Preface The Latin American Avant-Garde: Context for Vicente Huidobro’s and Mário de Andrade’s Poetics xxiii Acknowledgments xxv A Note on Translation and Orthography 1 Introduction A Desire for Equilibrium in Avant-Garde Poetics: The Parables “Non serviam” and “Parabola d’A escrava que não é Isaura” 25 Part One Poetry as Orientation of the Creative Self: Vicente Huidobro 32 Chapter One Poetic Engineering: Creating the Poetic Realm in Huidobro’s Early Manifestos 71 Chapter Two Orientation and Trajectory in “Aviso a los turistas” and “Manifiesto tal vez” 85 Chapter Three Dimensions of the Poet God: Huidobro’s Final Manifestos 99 Part Two Poetry as Contraband from the Unconscious: Mário de Andrade 104 Chapter Four “Prefácio Interessantíssimo” as Mock Manifesto 129 Chapter Five At the Dock and on the Street: The Loss of Purity and Solidarity in Mário’s Poetics 146 Chapter Six Balancing the Equations: Mário’s Struggle to Define Aesthetic Simultaneity v vi 178 Conclusion A Poetics of Equilibrium and the Avant-Garde Paradox 191 Appendix English Translations 203 Notes 215 Works Cited 223 Works Consulted 227 Index Contents ...