The selected poems ... Translated by Carolyn Forche and William Kulik. Edited with an introduction by William Kulik

New York: Ecco Press, [1991]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxvi, 181, [1]; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed Kulik: "For Kim Merker - best wishes! Bill Kukik." Robert Desnos (1900-1945) was a French poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement of his day. He was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, and was deported to the German concentration camps of Auschwitz in occupied Poland. He then went to Buchenwald, Flossenburg in Germany, and finally to Terezín (Theresienstadt) in occupied Czechoslovakia in 1945. He survived the war but died of typhoid a month later. Item #62898

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