My Heart Belongs to Dada

An excellent place to check up on little available or out of print or never translated European poets is Steven Fowler’s excellent work on the nth position site. Check it out:

The fifth of the bi-monthly article series with Nthposition.com focused on unjustly overlooked European poets.
This edition, the German Dadaist icon

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Also featured, three poems by Freytag-Loringhoven

Here is one of them:

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No spinsterlollypop for me!
Yes! We have no bananas
I got lusting palate
I always eat them…
There’s the vibrator
Coy flappertoy! …
A dozen cocktails, please!

http://www.nthposition.com/threenewtranslation.php

Reillumination #1 – Gunnar Ekelöf

Reillumination #2 – Daniil Kharms

Reillumination #3 – Kostas Ouranis

Reillumination #4 – Lucian Blaga

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