AUTEUR.
Manuel Maples Arce.

PUBLICATION.
New York, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010.

TYPE DOC.
Livre (texte en anglais)

FAÇONNAGE.
30 pages, cousues, impression noir & blanc, 19 x 13,7 cm.

DESCRIPTION.
« Written between 1922 and 1924, the year it was published, City: Bolshevik Superpoem in 5 Cantos is a long-form poem that became the most politically and aesthetically aggressive of the career of Mexican avant-garde poet Manuel Maples Arce. The subject is the “City” in state of revolutionary turmoil; however, the specifics of what city remains opaque. References to Mexico City and Xalapa are both discernible in the text, but perhaps only as the inspiration for a future Stridentist city, elsewhere referred to as Stridentopolis. The poem evokes the City tracing a narrative of revolution from its early exuberance, through periods of violence, and finally to a sort of hollow, confused disappointment in the final canto. This narrative was directly drawn from Maples Arce’s own experiences with the Mexican Revolution and its very messy aftermath.»

COTE. 01MAPL/CIT

ISBN. Sans