Ideas Have No Smell by Anthology and translated by Mary Ann Caws, Paul Colinet, Paul Nougé, M. Kasper

This is poetry from Belgium.

Ideas Have No Smell by Anthology translated by Mary Ann Caws, Paul Colinet, Paul Nougé, M. Kasper is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781946433138E12.

Ideas Have No Smell is an anthology of French-language poetry, translated and/or selected by Mary Ann Caws, Paul Colinet, Paul Nougé, M. Kasper, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2018. As an anthology of Belgian surrealist energies, the book treats thought as something comic, volatile, and suspiciously physical. As a readerly object, an anthology like this is best approached by wandering. Skip around. Follow a name. Notice which poem keeps its hand on your sleeve. The point is not completion so much as contact with a language tradition in motion. For a library of poetry in translation, its importance lies in plurality: many voices, many pressures, one opened door.

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