Pierre Peuchmaurd (1948-2009) was born in Paris, and became fascinated with surrealism in his teenage years. Though his poetry came to transcend the boundaries of surrealist work--by being both more lyrical and inhabited by more substantial narratives--he never forgot the movement and the artists that first inspired him. This is the first collection of his work in English. "The Nothing Bird is an exemplar of the art of translation at its best. E. C. Belli has translated the exquisitely lyric, surrealist poems of the late Pierre Peuchmaurd into equally exquisite poems in English. These...
Pierre Peuchmaurd (1948-2009) was born in Paris, and became fascinated with surrealism in his teenage years. Though his poetry came to transcend the b...
"In "Objects of Hunger" the circularity and unsolvable nature of our quarrels against one another and against the self are trapped in a throbbing asceticism, in an exploration of resignation, concession, persistence, and monstrosity"--
"In "Objects of Hunger" the circularity and unsolvable nature of our quarrels against one another and against the self are trapped in a throbbing asce...
