'Without Being Walt Whitman': Vicente Huidobro, Whitman, and the Poetics of Sight.
The Chilean vanguardista poet Vicente Huidobro singlehandedly inaugurated the Spanish-language avant-gardes with his 1918 poem Ecuatorial [ Equatorial], and remained a dynamic and controversial global figure until his death in 1948. This essay demonstrates how Huidobro appropriated Walt Whitman's 'S...
| Publicado en: | Comparative American Studies Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 282 - 301 |
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