Stridentist Poems by Manuel Maples Arce and translated by KM Cascia

This is poetry from Mexico.

Stridentist Poems by Manuel Maples Arce translated by KM Cascia is published by World Poetry Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2023.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781954218116E12.

Manuel Maples Arce’s Stridentist Poems, translated by KM Cascia, is a doorway into one of Mexico’s great avant-garde eruptions. Stridentism was built from noise, speed, cities, machines, manifestos, and refusal, and this book should be read with that electricity in mind. These poems are not trying to be calm objects. They belong to the clangor of modernity, the belief that poetry could keep pace with urban shock and technological transformation. Cascia’s translation gives contemporary English-language readers a way to hear that historical charge without treating it as merely archival. I would read this as a book of engines, signals, arguments, and bright disruption. Its value is literary history, yes, but also the reminder that poetry has always wanted to make trouble with the future.

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