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The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems
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Protean, erotic, scatological and experimental, Picassos poetry is finally compiled in this essential anthologyPablo Picasso is arguably the most famous and influential artist of the 20th century. What few in the Englishspeaking world know is that in 1935, at age 54, an emotional crisis caused Picasso to halt all painting and devote himself entirely to poetry. Even after resuming his visual work, Picasso continued to write, in a characteristic torrent, until 1959, leaving a body of prose poems that Andr Breton praised as an intimate journal, both of the feelings and the senses, such as has never been kept before. Similarly struck by the poems originality, Michel Leiris wrote, If we must compare him, despite his fierce singularity, in order to try and situate him on the literary map, I see only James Joyce. Near the end of his life, Picasso himself was quoted as having told a friend that long after his death his writing would gain recognition and encyclopedias would say: Picasso, Pablo RuizSpanish poet who dabbled in painting, drawing and sculpture. For the past five years, poets Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris have overseen a project to translate the majority of this writing into English for the first time. Working from Picassos original Spanish and French (he wrote in both languages), they enlisted the help of over a dozen contemporary poets in order to mark, as they note in their introduction, Picassos entry into our own time. This is indeed a new Picasso for most of us, or rather, a renewed Picasso: the poems are as protean, erotic, scatological and experimental in form as his visual art has always been described. But amid the ubiquitous posters, tshirts and tchotchkes, how many of us have truly felt the impact of Picassos visual work as powerfully as it was perceived in the first half of the 20th century? The poems give us a 21stcentury Picasso, free of clich. Perhaps they will even spark a revival of interest in his dabblings.
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