Paul Aluard was one of the most important of the early surrealists. Born in Paris in 1895, Aluard first became involved with the Dada movement, and after the war, disgusted by the commonly accepted laws of bourgeois morality, involved himself with surrealism. His fame as a poet began with "Capitale de la Douleur" (1926) and continued over the next ...
Lubasch, whose first book was awarded the prestigious Norma Farber First Book Award given by the Poetry Society of America in 1999, offers another volume of spare, inquisitive lyrics haunted by the innovations of 19th-century French poetry.
This book of poems, fragments, and speculative notes investigates the ways that language attaches to consciousness and consciousness to language. The spirit of the surrealists hovers over the volume as Lubasch pushes words into unusual positions in her effort to find a language that fits the world.
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