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Defense of the idol

Title
Defense of the idol / Omar Cáceres ; translated by Mónica de la Torre ; with a prologue by Vicente Huidobro.
Author
Cáceres, Omar, 1904-1943
Publication
  • Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018.
  • [Berkeley, Calif.] : Small Press Distribution, [date of distribution not identified]
  • Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn, [date of manufacture not identified]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Torre, Mónica de la
  • Huidobro, Vicente, 1893-1948
  • Bourne, Andrew (Book designer)
  • Lawson, Sarah (Typesetter)
  • Smith, Rebekah (Typesetter)
  • Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher
  • McNaughton & Gunn (Firm), printer
Description
61 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
"Branded a 'poète maudit' for the cryptic circumstances surrounding his life and death, Omar Cáceres once tried to destroy all copies of his one and only book. The myth around him survived thanks to the inclusion of fifteen poems from Defense of the Idol in the groundbreaking anthology Antología de poesía chilena nueva from 1935. Presented here for the first time in English translation, along with the sole foreword Vicente Huidobro ever wrote for a poet, the poems of Cáceres possess a ghostly, metaphysical energy combined with modern-age imagery: bows pulsate, moons hurtle, rains sing, trees drag their shadows in drunk stupors, winds break the sky open. But the interior life of the poet assumes dominance, interrogated through anguished, turbulent dreamscapes of language."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 July 25).
Series Statement
Lost literature series ; 23
Uniform Title
Lost literature series ; 23.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Translations.
  • Poetry.
  • Poems – 20th century.
  • Zines.
Note
  • Original Spanish text (with the addition of Yo, viejas y nueva palabras) with contemporary English translation of Defensa del Ídolo (Santiago, Chile: Imprenta Norma, 1934).
Language (note)
  • In Spanish and English on facing pages
Contents
Prólogo = Foreword / Vicente Huidobro -- Mansión de espuma = Mansion of foam -- Insomnio junta al alba = Insomnia near dawn -- Palabras a un espejo = Words to a mirror -- Decoración de la lluvia = The rain's decoration -- Nocturno = Nocturne -- Anclas opuestas = Opposite anchors -- Anget de silencio = Angel of silence -- Oráculo inconstante = Fickle oracle -- Segunda forma = Second form -- Contra la noche = Against night -- Azul deshabitado = Uninhabited blue -- Estampa native = Native engraving -- Canción al prófugo = Song for the fugitive -- Iluminación del Yo = The I's illumination -- Extremos visitantes = Visitor extremes -- Yo, viejas y nueva palabras = I, old and new words
Call Number
JFD 20-427
ISBN
  • 1946433039
  • 9781946433039
OCLC
1037278431
Author
Cáceres, Omar, 1904-1943, author.
Title
Defense of the idol / Omar Cáceres ; translated by Mónica de la Torre ; with a prologue by Vicente Huidobro.
Publisher
Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018.
Distributor
[Berkeley, Calif.] : Small Press Distribution, [date of distribution not identified]
Manufacturer
Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn, [date of manufacture not identified]
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Lost literature series ; 23
Lost literature series ; 23.
Biography
"Omar Cáceres (b. 1904) was a cult poet in the Chilean avant-garde. He published one book of poetry, Defense of the Idol (1934), with an introduction by Vicente Huidobro, of which only two copies survived after Cáceres tried to burn the entire print run upon publication due to the edition's numerous typos. He had ties with the Communist Party, and according to poet Jorge Teillier, played the violin in an orchestra of the blind. He was murdered by unknown assailants in 1943."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 July 25).
Language
In Spanish and English on facing pages
Local Note
Ugly Duckling Presse chapbook and zine collection.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Torre, Mónica de la, translator.
Huidobro, Vicente, 1893-1948, writer of introduction.
Container of (expression): Cáceres, Omar, 1904-1943. Defensa del Ídolo. Spanish.
Container of (expression): Cáceres, Omar, 1904-1943. Defensa del Ídolo. English.
Bourne, Andrew (Book designer), book designer.
Lawson, Sarah (Typesetter), compositor.
Smith, Rebekah (Typesetter), compositor.
Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.
McNaughton & Gunn (Firm), printer.
Research Call Number
JFD 20-427
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