Manuel Maples Arce
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Manuel Maples Arce was a Mexican poet, lawyer, diplomat and writer, founder of the Stridentism
movement in 1921.
In 1924 he published Urbe. Superpoema bolchevique en cinco cantos, which English version, made by John Dos Passos
, was edited in 1929 by The T.S. Book Company of New York, entitled as Metropolis. This edition is maybe the first poetry book of a Mexican, and the first of the Spanish language avant-garde, translated into English.
Stridentism
Stridentism was an artistic and multidisciplinary avant-garde movement, founded in Mexico City by Manuel Maples Arce at the end of 1921 but formally developed in Xalapa where all the founders moved after the University of Veracruz granted its support for the movement...
movement in 1921.
In 1924 he published Urbe. Superpoema bolchevique en cinco cantos, which English version, made by John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos
John Roderigo Dos Passos was an American novelist and artist.-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dos Passos was the illegitimate son of John Randolph Dos Passos , a distinguished lawyer of Madeiran Portuguese descent, and Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison of Petersburg, Virginia. The elder Dos Passos...
, was edited in 1929 by The T.S. Book Company of New York, entitled as Metropolis. This edition is maybe the first poetry book of a Mexican, and the first of the Spanish language avant-garde, translated into English.