This poet’s typographical experiments include the cover of his Manifestes, which is composed of lines in which each successive line removes another letter from the title. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who wrote poems shaped like a triangle and a windmill. Pablo Picasso illustrated a seven-canto poem by this author, in which the title character sees an airplane and a burnt-out star during his descent via parachute.
ANSWER: Vicente Huidobro [or Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández]
[10e] That poem, Altazor, was translated into English by this writer. This translator of “Sunstone” collaborated with Octavio Paz on Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei.
ANSWER: Eliot Weinberger
[10m] Weinberger also translated Huidobro’s poem shaped like this object, which describes a “Guitar of the sky.” In another poem shaped like this object, it says “Hello world” and calls itself an “eloquent tongue.”
ANSWER: the Eiffel Tower (The second poem is Guillaume Apollinaire’s “Salut monde.”)
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