Stridentist PoemsManuel Maples Arce (trans. KM Cascia) Stridentist Poems is a complete bilingual edition of the major early works of Manuel Maples Arce, founder of Stridentism, Mexico's most radical avant garde movement of the 1920s. Maples Arce's Stridentist poetry appeared at a time when Mexico was the center of the avant garde, in a milieu that included Kahlo and Rivera, Modotti and Weston. His early books Inner Scaffolds, CITY, and Prohibited Poems, collected here

A Cold War scandal erupted

I love and lived this poem's untethered shadowing

Revered by Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolaño

while remaining deeply sorry

vertaalde werk van Gertrude Stein en maakte tekstinstallaties

With spare lines and simple language

Even after his abrupt death in 1986

ultimately realizing too late that he cannot transcend the reverberations and echoes laden with black social death

Jennifer Soong’s Suede Mantis / Soft Rage proffers tenderness that teeters on the precipice of loss

This] poetry is thrillingly of the present moment

an invitation to a journey through Black America

' Susan Howe embodies that art in her My Emily Dickinson