A Picasso Sampler: Excerpts from The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, & Other Poems
Edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris.
Edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris.
It was in early 1935, then, that Picasso (then fifty-four years old) began to write what we will present here as his poetry - a writing that continued, sometimes as a daily offering, until the summer of 1959. In the now standard Picasso myth, the onset of the poetry is said to have coincided with a devastating marital crisis (a financially risky divorce, to be more exact), because of which his output as a painter halted for the first time in his life.
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