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-Very little has been published about the frequent travels of John Dos Passos to Mexico during the late 1920s and the early 1930s by his biographers.

- Mexico had became a cultural magnet: Important authors like Arthur Cravan, Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, D.H. Lawrence, André Breton, Antonin Artaud, Sergei Eisenstein, and Leon Trotsky spent some periods of time there.

JOHN DOS PASSOS IN MEXICO by Rubén Gallo

– Dos Passos really liked John Reed's “ Insurgent Mexico”, and wrote in “ New Masses” about Diego Rivera's murals.

“He also published some impressions about the noise, poverty,and chaos of Mexico City, as well as a short article on the lot of peasants in the stateof Morelos, where the revolutionary Zapata had lived and fought.3 During this tripDos Passos also painted several watercolors based on his impressions: Man with Hat [Figure 1] and Trio with Straws [Figure 2].”- ( From Rubén Gallo's essay)

-John Dos Passos meet the Mexican poet Salvador Novo, who wrote in the magazine “Contemporáneos”and experimental poetry and an erotic autobiography.

In the year 1927, they went together on a short road trip to the mountains near Puebla.

http://youtu.be/SstQ3XbafAk

MANUEL MAPLES ARCE AND THE ESTRIDENTISTAS. John Dos Passos really liked their poetry and ideology and

translated one of his poems, Urbe.

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-Very little has been published about the frequent travels of John Dos Passos to Mexico during the late 1920s and the early 1930s by his biographers.

- Mexico had became a cultural magnet: Important authors like Arthur Cravan, Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, D.H. Lawrence, André Breton, Antonin Artaud, Sergei Eisenstein, and Leon Trotsky spent some periods of time there.

JOHN DOS PASSOS IN MEXICO by Rubén Gallo

ESTRIDENTISMO, press and father Hidalgo as an icon.Two avant garde movements: Estridentistas vs.

Contemporáneos

From the Futurism to the Estridentismo. A poem book of an estridentista and two photographs by Tina Modotti.

MANUEL MAPLES ARCE'S URBE and its translation by John Dos Passos( called Metropolis in 1929), who became the

American Embassador of the Estridentismo.

● Like in “ Manhattan Transfer” the city is the main topic of the poem and a symbol of modern life.

He aquí mi poemabrutaly multánimea la nueva ciudad.

Oh ciudad toda tensade cables y de esfuerzos,sonora todade motores y de alas.

Manuel Maples Arce, 1924.

Here is my poemgruffmultipleof the new city.O city all tensewith cables and strainsall humming with motors and wings

John Dos Passos, 1929

MANUEL MAPLES ARCE'S “URBE”

Juxtaposes images from urban life to create a kaleidoscopic text

Similar in IMAGINERY, FOCUS AND USAGE OF LANGUAGE TO MANHATTAN TRANSFER

● Unlike Marinetti, Maples Arce thought that modernity went hand-in-hand with socialist reform.

La metrallahace saltar pedazos del silencio.Las callessonoras y desiertas,son ríos de sombraque van a dar al mar,y el cielo, deshilachado,es la nuevabandera,que flamea.sobre la ciudad.

Manuel Maples Arce.

Machinegun firehacks off hunks of silence.The streetsreverberating, emptyare rivers of darknesspouring into the seaand the skythreadbareis the newflagthat flaresover the city.

John Dos Passos