Stridentist PoemsManuel Maples Arce (trans. KM Cascia) Stridentist Poems is a complete bilingual edition of the major early works of Manuel Maples Arce, founder of Stridentism, Mexico's most radical avant garde movement of the 1920s. Maples Arce's Stridentist poetry appeared at a time when Mexico was the center of the avant garde, in a milieu that included Kahlo and Rivera, Modotti and Weston. His early books Inner Scaffolds, CITY, and Prohibited Poems, collected here