From the Hidden Storehouse: Selected Poems (Field Translation Series 6)
Luis Bunuel called Peret "the quintessential surrealist poet." Benjamin Peret is a poet like no other. One of the original group of Surrealists, he seceded from Dada in 1924 and remained faithful to Surrealist principles until his death in 1959. His irreverence and incandescent imagination remain...
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Luis Bunuel called Peret "the quintessential surrealist poet." Benjamin Peret is a poet like no other. One of the original group of Surrealists, he seceded from Dada in 1924 and remained faithful to Surrealist principles until his death in 1959. His irreverence and incandescent imagination remain fresh and funny, and they are perfectly captured in this inspired, idomatic translation.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780932440112 (0932440118)
Publish date: December 15th 1981
Publisher: Oberlin
Pages no: 152
Edition language: English
Like most of the Field Translation Series, this book is -no exaggeration- a gift to mankind. Stunning and wild and so funny. Makes me want to jump out the window.
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