Alternating current
By: Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane.
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 215
Work titles: Corriente alterna. English
Notes: Translation of Corriente alterna.

"A Richard Seaver book."
Table of contents: title: What does poetry name? -- Form and meaning -- Homage to Aesop -- Language and abstraction -- A Peruvian painter -- Notes on la realidad y el deso -- Landscape and the novel in Mexico -- Metamorphosis -- Invention, underdevelopment, modernity -- The seed -- Primitives and barbarians -- Nature, abstraction, time -- Figure and presence -- The new acolytes -- On criticism -- Mask and transparency -- Remedios Varo’s appearances and disappearances -- André Breton or the quest of the beginning -- The verbal pact and correspondence -- Recapitulations -- Knowledge, drugs, inspiration -- Henri Michaux -- Grace, asceticism, merits -- Paradises -- The metamorphoses of stone -- The symposium and the hermit -- Buñuel’s philosophical cinema -- Forms of atheism -- Nihilism and dialectics -- Person and principle -- The liberated man and liberators -- Revolt, revolution, rebellion -- The verbal round -- The city mouse and the country mouse-- The channel and the signs -- Satiety and nausea -- The two forms of reason -- The exception to the rule -- The rules of the exception -- The end in the beginning -- A form in search of itself -- Revolt.