Pierre Reverdy

"Soupault claimed that Reverdy 'with Paul Eluard, is the purest of the writers of his time." - Poetry Foundation

     "A glass of papaya juice
and back to work. My heart is in my
pocket, it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy."
--Frank O'Hara, "A Step Away From Them"

"Reverdy's strange landscapes, which combine an intense inwardness with a proliferation of sensual data, bear in them the signs of a continual search for an impossible totality. Almost mystical in their effect, his poems are nevertheless anchored in the minutiae of the everyday world; in their quiet, at times monotone music, the poet seems to evaporate, to vanish into the haunted country he has created. The result is at once beautiful and disquieting as if Reverdy had emptied the space of the poem in order to let the reader inhabit it." --Paul Auster