Defense of the Idol by Omar Cáceres, trans. Mónica de la Torre Gaspar Orozco editor at Arc Publications

editor at Arc Publications

steeped in realism

a growing sense of poetry as a weapon in the fight to heal this planet of ours

Others are yours

and employing both formal and free verse

Defense of the Idol by Omar Cáceres, trans. Mónica de la Torre Gaspar Orozco editor at Arc PublicationsBranded a pote maudit for the cryptic circumstances surrounding his life and death, Omar Cceres once tried to destroy all copies of his one and only book. The myth around him survived thanks to the inclusion of fifteen poems from Defense of the Idol in the groundbreaking anthology Antologa de poesa chilena nueva from 1935. Presented here for the first time in English translation, along with the sole foreword Vicente Huidobro ever wrote for a poet, the