Yvan Goll (1891-1950), a poet of many talents and many languages, his journal Surr alism (1924) was the first to feature surrealist work much to the chagrin of Andre Breton. A Jewish intellectual living in NYC during World War II, much of his French language poetry, including Landless John, was translated into English by various hands including William Carlos Williams, W.S. Merwin and Galway Kinnell. He was the first to translate...
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