We have been purging our books. No easy task, we read voraciously and widely and have for decades. One advantage of going through the shelves slowly is I find books I have forgotten about. For example: Tristan Tzara’s “First Poems” translated from the Romanian. I must have bought it in the late 70’s/ early 80’s when I was obsessed with Rimbaud, Artaud, Apollinaire and the French Surrealists. $2.50, probably at Garner & Smith Books on the Drag across from the HRC. I read it again today. It was just okay. The Approximate Man is still one of my favorite long poems. But First poems lack the magic of Tzara’s images in his later work.
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