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Rediscover Joyce Mansour, the most significant Surrealist poet to
emerge from 1950s Paris. “You know very well, Joyce, that you are
for me—and very objectively too—the greatest poet of our time.
Surrealist poetry, that’s you.”—André Breton Joyce
Mansour was a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt whose fierce, macabre,
erotically charged works gave André Breton’s Surrealist group a
much-needed jolt after the ravages of the Second World War. Among
new adherents, only Mansour wrote poems commensurate with those of
Robert Desnos, René Char, Benjamin Pêret, and other poets from
the movement’s heyday. Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems by
Joyce Mansour is a compact yet career-spanning, bilingual anthology
of this incendiary poet. With a biographical introduction by
translator Emilie Moorhouse, who was drawn to Mansour's tough,
take-no-prisoners stance during the societal reckoning of the
#MeToo movement, Emerald Wounds showcases the entire arc of her
trajectory as a poet, from the at-once gothic and minimalist
fragments of her first collection in 1953, Screams, to the
serpentine power of her final poems of the 1980s. Juxtaposing the
original French poems with their English translations, Mansour’s
voice surges forward uncensored and raw, communicating the
frustrations, anger, and sadness of an intelligent, worldly woman
who defies the constraints and oppression of a male-dominated
society that sees women as superficial objects of desire rather
than multidimensional, autonomous subjects. Mansour is a poet the
world needs today.
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