Tag: Unica Zürn

Unica Zürn's Anagrams

Last week’s reading at The Drawing Center brought back the pleasure I had when translating and working on Unica Zürn’s anagrammatic poems. I had published these nine translations back in the early nineties in Clayton Eshleman’s SULFUR, but feel like posting them today again. A more deteailed essay on Zürn and Hans Bellmer is forthcoming in my collection of essays, Justifying the Margins, to be published later this month … Read more Unica Zürn's Anagrams

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Unica Zürn: Dark Spring

April 17 – July 23, 2009 Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 6-8 pm Unica Zürn: Dark Spring will present approximately 50 ink and watercolor works on paper by the late German artist and writer Unica Zürn, spanning from the early 1950s until her tragic suicide in 1970. A noted poet and novelist, Zürn produced numerous expressionistic short stories that were published in German newspapers throughout the 1950s before moving … Read more Unica Zürn: Dark Spring

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