PIERRE REVERDY

PIERRE REVERDYFrom the press: The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime. Reverdys poetry has exerted a special attraction on American poets, from Kenneth Rexroth to John Ashbery, and this new selection, featuring the work of fourteen distinguished

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Everyone knows these periods of emptiness

Stock Pond proposes a cottage corrosive portrait of country life

moving from careful mathematical calculations to lyrical narratives

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the most miraculous cracks

The dividing lines of reality and thoughtforms blur as Chung takes on the ever-timely subject of food consciousness

Throughout the Depression and World War II it provided vital sustenance

Milan Knížak

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