New Impressions of AfricaRaymond Roussel (trans. Mark Ford) Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877 1933) was one of the French belle poque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned. New Impressions of Africa is undoubtedly Roussel's most extraordinary work. Since its publication in 1932, this weird and

David Francis translated the poems from Spanish into an acrobatic English

the black earth region of Russia

From her early “Imagist” period

saddened century

melancholy and a bravura kind of stupidity

Envisioned in the form of a scrapbook

The Capture of Krao Farini is part Turing test

Using personal narratives

"Whiplashed by its hot panache

the work moves from reminiscences of her mother and of growing up in California to meditations on illness and recovery to various poetic adventures in Amsterdam

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an infinite offering