Scope and Contents This is the English translation of the book originally written in French that is also held by the Sackner Archive. The content mainly consists of brief aphorisms.Internet: Vicente Huidobro was born in Chile in 1893. As a youth he traveled to Paris where he lived for many years, befriending both French and Spanish poets such a Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Juan Larrea and Jorge Luis Borges. His manifestos, which crystallized his poetics of Creationism, were published in French in 1925, the year in which he returned to Chile to become the editor of a newspaper. During this period he ran for the presidency of Chile, but was defeated, after which he returned to Paris, where he wrote novels and, in 1931, the poetic work 'Altazor'. 'Manifestos Manifest' contains autobiographical reassessments of his writing, such as "Manifestos Manifest" and "Creationism", more typically manifesto-like statements such as "Futurism and Machinism" and "Manifestos Mayhaps," and comically inspired...

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The text appears to be short biographies of European poets and artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.