Selected Poems

Pierre Reverdy, Mary Ann Caws (sel., tr.), John Ashbery (tr.), Patricia Terry (tr.)

ISBN 10: 1852241543 / ISBN 13: 9781852241544

Edité par Bloodaxe, 1991

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Minor wear to cover & edge, most evident at corners. Text pages in very good condition.

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• Titre: Selected Poems
• Éditeur: Bloodaxe
• Date de parution: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1852241543
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781852241544
• Reliure: Softcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
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Synopsis

Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960) is one of the greatest and most influential figures in modern French poetry. He founded the journal Nord-Sud with Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, which drew together the first Surrealists. Associated with painters such as Picasso, Gris and Braque, he has been called a Cubist poet, for conventional structure is eliminated in his poésie brut (‘raw poetry’), much as the painters cut away surface appearance to bring through the underlying forms. But Reverdy went beyond Cubist desolation to express a profound spiritual doubt and his sense of a mystery in the universe forever beyond his understanding. André Breton hailed him in the first Surrealist Manifesto as ‘the greatest poet of the time’. Louis Aragon said that for Breton, Soupault, Éluard and himself, Reverdy was ‘our immediate elder, the exemplary poet’.