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Body Sweats - The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (Paperback)
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Body Sweats - The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (Paperback)
Series: The MIT Press
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The first major collection of poetry written in English by the
flabbergasting and flamboyant Baroness Elsa, "the first American
Dada." As a neurasthenic, kleptomaniac, man-chasing proto-punk poet
and artist, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven left in her
wake a ripple that is becoming a rip-one hundred years after she
exploded onto the New York art scene. As an agent provocateur
within New York's modernist revolution, "the first American Dada"
not only dressed and behaved with purposeful outrageousness, but
she set an example that went well beyond the eccentric divas of the
twenty-first century, including her conceptual descendant, Lady
Gaga. Her delirious verse flabbergasted New Yorkers as much as her
flamboyant persona. As a poet, she was profane and playfully
obscene, imagining a farting God, and transforming her contemporary
Marcel Duchamp into M'ars (my arse). With its ragged edges and
atonal rhythms, her poetry echoes the noise of the metropolis
itself. Her love poetry muses graphically on ejaculation, orgasm,
and oral sex. When she tired of existing words, she created new
ones: "phalluspistol," "spinsterlollipop," "kissambushed." The
Baroness's rebellious, highly sexed howls prefigured the Beats; her
intensity and psychological complexity anticipates the poetic
utterances of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Published more than a
century after her arrival in New York, Body Sweats is the first
major collection of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven's poems in
English. The Baroness's biographer Irene Gammel and coeditor
Suzanne Zelazo have assembled 150 poems, most of them never before
published. Many of the poems are themselves art objects, decorated
in red and green ink, adorned with sketches and diagrams, presented
with the same visceral immediacy they had when they were composed.
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