The Secret Wall

English translation of El Muro Secreto (1949) the first book of poetry by Argentinian poet essayist and art critic Aldo Pellegrini (1903-1973). Pellegrini was the founder of the first surrealist group formed in the Spanish-speaking world in 1926. He took part in journals like Ciclo A Partir de Cero and Letra y Línea associated with aesthetic innovation and the avant-garde and was an early advocate of abstract art in his country. His translations of Artaud Breton's Manifestos the complete works of Lautréamont and his comprehensive crucial Antología de la Poesía Surrealista en Lengua Francesa were published by his own pioneering imprint Argonauta. Throughout the thirty-three poems that comprise this book dream love desire and the nocturnal are the intransigent forces conjured to ignite the fire of imagination in the quest for the marvelous a great adventure in the unknown continents of language.