TWENTY POEMS TO BE READ ON THE TRAM

This volume is a faithful mimotype of the 1922 edition of Oliverio Girondo's Twenty Poems to be read on the Tram, in form and typography as well as the original positioning of the vivid watercolours. The cycle is a set of 20 Candide-like Ultraist postcards recounting Girondo's travels around Europe and South America in the first years of the 1920s, revelling in the splendour and squalor he encountered in equal measure. The ideals of the Ultraist movement - sparsity, vividity, two-image metaphors - are nowhere better seen than in this cycle.

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