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The Caprices is a sequence of poems written in response to Goya's Los Caprichos, a series of aquatints in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Each of the 80 poems is illustrated by the etching to which it responds, and shares its title. As James Byrne writes in his introduction: "Goya's Los Caprichos are a series of real-life nightmares that haunt the twenty-first century. [...] Arguably, the world we live in today is more terrifying than Goya's Spain because — in over two hundred years since he created Los Caprichos — we have become more cool about human inhumanity. The echo grows louder, the world becomes more absurd, more criminal and yet, perversely, our collective response all too often verges on the whimsical. Goya, echoing in his deafness, hears our own, capturing all these elements variously throughout his masterwork."

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A poem sequence written as tribute to Van Gogh in the centenary year of his birth by a poet who is also a painter, novelist and biographer of Van Gogh.

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The editor Richard Cadell writes: The [10] pictures in this volume are selected by Roger Tomlin from [wood] blocks in his own collection. He lays no claim to their authorship, but should certainly take the credit for caring for them, and saving them from the scrap heap. Divorced from the contexts in which they first appeared, the blocks are free to assume identities of their own. Ten authors have made their suggestions...

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A collection of essays on the life and work of this seminal surrealist artist and writer, with contributions from Dore Ashton, Roger Cardinal, Claire Van Damme and Peter Inch (written specially for this volume) and from Öyvind Fahlström (translated) and Jean Tardieu (translated). The volume also includes translations of writings by Wols, and is illustrated by 3 of his drawings, 4 of his paintings and 6 of his photographs, all in black and white.

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The poems in this volume (reproduced as parallel texts) were written in 1914 and were first published in the collection De nos oiseaux (Editions Kra, Paris, 1929).

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