Farewell and a Handkerchief-Poems from the Road is a collection that reflects on the month-long travels of Czech poet V tězslav Nezval through Vienna, Paris, southern France, and Italy. During this journey, on May 9, 1933, Nezval had a chance encounter with two of the surrealist movement's most influential poets-Andr Breton and Paul luard-while sitting at the Cardinal Caf on the Grands Boulevards in Paris, a meeting that proved transformative...