Selected Poems by Vicente Huidobro Holland Park Press in which the assured manipulation

in which the assured manipulation of rhythm and internal rhyme produces poems of remarkable balance and grace' – Sarah Crown

immanent and on the threshold of a magical or imaginative transformation

and rebukes America - “Dear White America” - where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle

but the collection included both material culled from a recently recovered 1906 daybook and a final set of poems written over the last two years of his life

Selected Poems by Vicente Huidobro Holland Park Press in which the assured manipulationThis selected edition presents an overview of all of Huidobro's work, from 1914 until 1948, when his final, posthumous volume was published. moving from the early symbolist work, though the high avant garde phase towards the end of the First World War, then through the phase of Altazor and Temblor de cielo (Skyquake), the highpoint of his career (both published 1931), and on into the quieter late poetry which synthesises the previous work and settles