Emerald Wounds Selected Poems | 1.69 MB
Title: Emerald Wounds
Author: Joyce Mansour
Category: Nonfiction, Entertainment, Drama, Continental European, Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Language: English | 88 Pages | ISBN: 0872869016
Description:
Rediscover Joyce Mansour, the most significant Surrealist poet to emerge from 1950s Paris.
"You know very well, Joyce, that you are for me-and very objectively too-the greatest poet of our time. Surrealist poetry, that’s you."-André Breton
Joyce Mansour, a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt, was 25 years old when she published her first book in Paris in 1953. Her fierce, macabre, erotically charged works caught the eye of André Breton, who welcomed her into his Surrealist group and became her lifelong friend and ally. Despite her success in surrealist circles, her books received scant attention from the literary establishment, which is hardly surprising since Mansour’s favorite topics happened to be two of society’s greatest fears: death and unfettered female desire.
Now, over half a century later, Mansour’s time has come. Emerald Wounds collects her most important work, spanning the…
Rediscover Joyce Mansour, the most significant Surrealist poet to emerge from 1950s Paris.
"You know very well, Joyce, that you are for me-and very objectively too-the greatest poet of our time. Surrealist poetry, that’s you."-André Breton
Joyce Mansour, a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt, was 25 years old when she published her first book in Paris in 1953. Her fierce, macabre, erotically charged works caught the eye of André Breton, who welcomed her into his Surrealist group and became her lifelong friend and ally. Despite her success in surrealist circles, her books received scant attention from the literary establishment, which is hardly surprising since Mansour’s favorite topics happened to be two of society’s greatest fears: death and unfettered female desire.
Now, over half a century later, Mansour’s time has come. Emerald Wounds collects her most important work, spanning the…
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