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I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation by Francis Picabia

alccx__'s review

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emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

2.0

bryanmyoung's review against another edition

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5.0

Francis Picabia = painter, poet, collagist, singer, accuser, "funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket," intellectual revolutionary, actual genius; someone I adore and truly admire. The only collection of his that I'm aware of, beautifully curated and containing almost nothing not valuable. Worth owning.

"Singing, sculpting, writing, painting, no! My only goal is a silkier life and an end to my lying, to be the crowd that believes in its actions, that is to say, do evil, a genital emotion and catastrophe, philters and surgeries, odors and orthography, enthusiasms and caressing, to wear out furniture, contact with reality, real, great, and handsome profit, the word of the definition is absolute ALI BABA..."
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