Altazor

I just finished Altazor by Vincente Huidobro. Has anyone else read this book-length poem?

“Huidobro’s great poem is the most radical experiment in the modern era. It is an epic that tells the adventures, not of a hero, but of a poet in the changing skies of language. Throughout the seven cantos we see Altazor subject language to violent or erotic acts: mutilations and divisions, copulations and juxtapositions. The English translation of this poem that bristles with complexities is another epic feat, and its hero is Eliot Weinberger."—Octavio Paz

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Originally Posted by quasimodo1

“Huidobro’s great poem is the most radical experiment in the modern era. It is an epic that tells the adventures, not of a hero, but of a poet in the changing skies of language. Throughout the seven cantos we see Altazor subject language to violent or erotic acts: mutilations and divisions, copulations and juxtapositions. The English translation of this poem that bristles with complexities is another epic feat, and its hero is Eliot Weinberger."—Octavio Paz

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Couldn't have said it better myself. ;)

Whitman hurtling through the Cosmos, transforming into who? a tongue-tied, drug-addled Lewis Carroll maybe, finally degenerating into a bird. Fantastic!