Aesthetics of Equilibrium The Vanguard Poetics of Vicente Huidobro and Mário de Andrade

Poetry as orientation of the creative self : Vicente Huidobro -- Inventions and machines : creating the poetic realm in Huidobro's early manifestos -- Orientation and trajectory in "Aviso a los turistas" and "Manifiesto tal vez" -- Dimensions of the poet god : Huidobro's final manifestos -- Poetry as contraband from the unconscious : Mário de Andrade -- Prefácio interessantissimo as Mock Manifesto -- At the dock and on the street : the loss of purity and solidarity in Mário's Poetics -- Balancing the equations : Mário's struggle to define aesthetic simultaneity -- A poetics of equilibrium and the avant-garde paradox