Manifestos by Vicente Huidobro, trans. by Tony Frazer Pura López Colomé gives voice to a little-known

gives voice to a little-known woman from the past

They have that audacious and multilayered richness one finds in the originals

and what they can give us today

Roger McGough

Manifestos by Vicente Huidobro, trans. by Tony Frazer Pura López Colomé gives voice to a little-knownIn 1925, Huidobro published this collection of manifestos to consolidate his position in the avant garde in the face of the burgeoning new Surrealist movement and also as a reaction to attacks from one Spanish critic in particular, a member of the Ultraist movement, who seemed to want to establish the Spanish avant garde as an independent force, free of the influence of this loud, self confident Chilean. The book appeared in the same year that he