Reverdy - bilingual English-French edition Author:Pierre Reverdy (Anne Hyde Greet, translator) A collection of 19 poems in French with English translations. — Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960) first arrived in Paris in 1910. He soon became acquainted with Juan Gris, Picasso, Braque, Apollinaire and other painters and poets. In 1926 he and his wife withdrew to Solesme where he lived for the rest of his life. He is sometimes known, misleadingly, as... more » the poet of Cubism. He is also known for his writings about poetry. A contemporary of the Surrealists, he remained independent of the group, but his theory of the poetic image, quoted by Breton in the First Manifesto, became part of the Surrealist credo: "The image is a pure creation of the spirit. It cannot spring from a comparison but from the juxtaposition of two realities more or less different." His poetry expresses the spiritual tragedy of the man who loses his faith and continues to wait for a new revelation.« less