Mary Ann Caws
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Over the course of her long, highly-distinguished career, writing about literature and art, Mary Ann Caws has excavated, illuminated, and examined in depth the most intriguing works and personalities of Symbolism, Dada, Surrealism, and beyond. In these concise but always colourful and insightful articles, Caws brings us fresh portraits of the most famous figures and introduces us to writers and artists who merit more attention than they have received,...
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Pierre Reverdy is among the greatest of modern French poets, and certainly among the most elusive. His work is at once impersonal and intimate, crystalline and opaque, simple to the point of austerity. The landscape of his poetry is both instantly recognizable and, devoid of local specificity, imbued with an otherworldly strangeness. He is 'a secret poet for secret readers, ' as Octavio Paz once described him, insisting on the necessity of parsing...
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