A member of the so-called “generation of ’27,” Gerardo Diego (1896-1987) was the Spanish poet among his peers who first became interested in avant-garde poetics. The mode he adopted in his experimental poems was “creacionismo” or “literary cubism.” An accomplished pianist and music critic, Diego went on to publish many books, and was an active editor including as the first anthologist of his co-hort. He earned his living as a high school French teacher. In 1979 he shared the Cervantes Prize—Spanish letters’ highest honor—with Jorge Luis Borges. The pieces published here were written in 1922 while living on the north coast of Spain in a bungalow on the beach. It forms part of his collection, Handbook of Foams/Manual de espumas, which Shearsman Books in the United Kingdom will be issuing in early 2026 in a dual-language edition with English translations by Francisco Aragón.