The Dada Market: An Anthology of Poetry
by Willard Bohn
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Willard Bohn’s collection of Dada poetry is the most comprehensive ever compiled. Forty-two poets writing in seven different languages (French, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and Dutch) are presented in a bilingual format, where appropriate, with the original text and its English translation on facing pages. The collection, which opens with a critical and historical introduction, spans the years from 1914 to 1923 and includes such poets as Walter Conrad Arensberg, André show more Breton, Malcolm Cowley, Max Ernst, Mina Loy, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, and Tristan Tzara. Twelve works by ten Dada visual artists (six of whom are also represented by their poetry) illustrate the book. Dada’s overriding concern was liberty—social, moral, artistic, and intellectual. While rebelling against bourgeois values and all forms of authority, the Dadaists venerated scandalous behavior, spontaneity, and a general joie de vivre. Their adherents questioned the basic postulates of rationalism and humanism as few had done before. In trying to strip artistic expression down to its bare essentials, these writers often created works that were experiments in sound or typography. show lessTags
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Willard Bohn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, of French and Comparative Literature at Illinois State University, USA. He is the author or editor of thirteen books, including Marvelous Encounters: Surrealist Responses to Film, Art, Poetry, and Architecture (2005) and The Rise of Surrealism (2002).
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- Fiction and Literature, Poetry, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 808.81 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Literature Collections Collections of poetry
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- PN6101 .D3 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature German Poetry
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