This volume presents the four chapbooks published by Huidobro in 1917-18 and offers, at first glance, an odd mixture. Chronologically, we have
El espejo de agua
, written in Spanish in 1914-16, first published in 1916, but, to all intents and purposes not distributed until 1918;
Ecuatorial
(written in Spanish, although the author also made a French version,
Equatoriale
, which is believed to be later),
Hallali
and
Tour Eiffel
. These last two publications, composed in French, were both marked by textual experimentation and were important influences on the nascent wave of the Spanish avant-garde. The four chapbooks were bookended, so to speak, by the French-language volume
Horizon carré
(2017) and the Spanish-language collection,
Poemas árticos
(2018), both of which have already appeared in translation in this series of Huidobro volumes from Shearsman Books.