Translated from French by Ron Padgett. PROSE POEMS is Peirre Reverdy's first collection of poems, originally published in 1967. "I loved its austerity, its spookiness, and what I imagined to be its cubism...Dedications--removed from later editions--were to Max Jacob, Pablo Gargallo, Henri Laurens, Marcelle Braque, Josette Gris, Andre Level, Pablo Picasso, Leonce Rosenberg, Claude Laurens, Marthe Laurens, Juan Gris, Henri Matisse, and Georges Braque, all of whom were friends or acquaintances of the author"--Ron Padgett.