Young, Karl - Big World, Isn't It?: An Introduction to Clemente Padin's Latin American Experimental Poetry, 1959-2000 (2000)

Karl Young, Cesar Espinosa, Geoffrey Cook, Hugo Pontes, and Klaus Peter Dencker. 

Big World, Isn't It?: An Introduction to Clemente Padin's Latin American Experimental Poetry, 1959-2000.

Montevideo, Uruguay: Clemente Padín, 2000. 

Staple-bound softcover.  
24 pages including covers. 
English.

Very good.
Light edgewear.  

Scarce short contextualizing essay collection about Clemente Padín that was originally published in a Spanish language book, Clemente Padin's Latin American Experimental Poetry, 1959-2000, with statements from Clemente Padín edited by Fernando Millán and published in Madrid, Spain, 1999. Post-it Note addressed to "John" with short letter from Clemente Padín stuck to front cover. Original mailing envelope included with many artists' stamps and rubber stamps as well as postage stamps and markings addressed to mail artist John Held Jr. 

A Uruguayan artist, poet, and publisher, Padin edited the influential literary magazines Los Huevos del Plata and OVUM 10 which put him in contact with the international avant garde. A participant in mail art, his artistic and political endeavors landed him in jail in the late '70s and surveilled upon release til the mid '80s, deemed a threat by Uruguay's military dictatorship.