New Picabia - I AM A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER
I Am a Beautiful Monster provides the texts of all of Picabia's significant publications, his books Fifty-two Mirrors, Poems and Drawings of the Daughter Born without a Mother, Purring Poetry, Unique Eunuch, Yes No, Chi-lo-sa, Thoughts without Language, and others, all presented complete, many of them accompanied by their original illustrations.
October 2007
7 x 9, 560 pp., 20 illus.
$39.95/£22.95 (CLOTH)
ISBN-10:
0-262-16243-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-16243-2
from I AM A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER:
IN ORDER TO LOVE
SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO
HAVE SEEN IT OR HEARD IT
FOR A LONG TIME YOU BUNCH OF IDIOTS
[...]
I saw me
onion soup
cracked like a gong
big discount
[...]
"Francis Picabia's raucous early Dada poems dare the unprecedented and traffic in the sheer possibilities of abstract shimmering gesture. His late aphorisms are startling bolts of congealed thought. Marc Lowenthal has done the history of radical modernist poetry a great service by bringing these works of exquisitely offbeat taste and intoxicating élan into English. His translations of the turbulent work of this 'freeloading angel' show uncanny skill and welcome verve."
--Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania
