Published in 1960
69 pages
Joyce Mansour nee Joyce Patricia Adès, (1928 – 1986), was an Egyptian-French author, notable as a surrealist poet. She became the best known surrealist female poet, author of 16 books of poetry, as well as a number of important prose and theater pieces.
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helpful (translated) review from Adriana Scarpin on goodreads:
The introduction to this book written by Marilyn Gaddis Rose has an expression that I really liked and that perfectly sums up Mansour’s poetics: verbalized cinema.
Surrealist poetry is maintained above all by the strangeness of the images generated and with Mansour this is also a reality, which is why calling his work verbalized cinema works so well, in his succession of strange images it is up to us to “assemble” and extract the meaning that impresses us.
