Aesthetics of Equilibrium

List of Abbreviations
Preface: The Latin American Avant-Garde: Context for Vicente Huidobro’s and Mário de Andrade’s Poetics
Acknowledgments
A Note on Translation and Orthography
Introduction: A Desire for Equilibrium in Avant-Garde Poetics: The Parables “Non serviam” and “Parabola d’A escrava que não é Isaura”
Part One: Poetry as Orientation of the Creative Self: Vicente Huidobro
Chapter One: Poetic Engineering: Creating the Poetic Realm in Huidobro’s Early Manifestos
Chapter Two: Orientation and Trajectory in “Aviso a los turistas” and “Manifiesto tal vez”
Chapter Three: Dimensions of the Poet God: Huidobro’s Final Manifestos
Part Two: Poetry as Contraband from the Unconscious: Mário de Andrade
Chapter Four: “Prefácio Interessantíssimo” as Mock Manifesto
Chapter Five: At the Dock and on the Street: The Loss of Purity and Solidarity in Mário’s Poetics
Chapter Six: Balancing the Equations: Mário’s Struggle to Define Aesthetic Simultaneity
Conclusion: A Poetics of Equilibrium and the Avant-Garde Paradox
Appendix: English Translations
Notes
Works Cited
Works Consulted
Index