Jeffrey C. Robinson: from Romantic Manifestos Manifest
a work in progress
The title of this work in progress adds “Romantic” to the title of a little book of polemics on poetry by the Chilean master of “sky” poetry, Vicente Huidobro. I propose: gather 75 or so statements, terms, and jargon from the “Romantic mother-lode” (Anne Waldman) with the hope that together, with accompanying commentary, they will accumulate irrefutably a major well-spring for modern and contemporary innovative poetry. In one sense Romantic Manifestos Manifest brings to attention the underpinnings of Po