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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, Where Appropriate, In A Bilingual Format With The Original Text And Its English Translation On Facing Pages. The Collection, Which Opens With A Critical And Historical Introduction, Spans The Years 1914-1923 And Includes Such Poets As Walter Conrad Arensberg, Andre 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 Poetry, The Dadaists' Distrust Of Logic, Which They Saw As A Correlative Of Traditional Authority, Led To Fanatically Antilogical Compositions And An Aesthetic

Author

and with an introduction by Willard Bohn

Publisher

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809318193

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories

Updated

2026-03-24