The fiftieth-anniversary edition of New York School poet Lewis Warsh's long out-of-print translation of a major poem by Robert Desnos, pillar of French Surrealism, presented alongside the original text. Desnos's NIGHT OF LOVELESS NIGHTS--written in tribute to legendary French chanteuse Yvonne George in 1926--is a maelstrom of romantic despair, political upswell, and psychedelic irony. John Ashbery's claim that Frank O'Hara...
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