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Lances All Alike - by Suzanne Zelazo (Paperback)

Lances All Alike - by  Suzanne Zelazo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Two of the twentieth century's greatest art provocateurs, avant-gardists, and bohemians finally connect in the poetry of Suzanne Zelazo.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Modernist poet-painters Mina Loy and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had many friends in common (including Djuna Barnes and Marcel Duchamp), yet there is no record that the two ever met. Their non-relationship presents a curious "absent presence" in modernist history.<br>Zelazo weaves lines of poetry by both women into an imaginary conversation, exploring the way their work has been suppressed, stitched, spliced, and edited by male editors and arbiters of taste. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Zelazo recites all the riddles whispered to her by the sphinxes of the avant-garde."<br>--Christian Bök</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Suzanne Zelazo is the author of <i>Parlance</i> (Coach House), and the co--editor of <i>Body Sweats: the Uncensored Writings of Baroness Elsa von Freytag--Loringhoven</i> (MIT Press).</p>

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