Vicente Huidobro wrote avant-garde poetry and manifestos and is closely associated with creationism, his idea that the poem should create its own reality rather than simply describe the world. Altazor follows a falling poet through increasingly fragmented language, moving from philosophical meditation towards sound and verbal breakdown. Other collections and manifestos experiment with typography, image and the autonomy of poetic language. Huidobro's work is playful, difficult and formally radical. The most relevant shelves are Latin American avant-garde poetry, modernism, experimental typography and writers interested in how meaning changes when language is treated as material. Read more Less
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