Farewell to 2014
We asked contributors to gorse nos. 1 and 2 for their favourite reads of the year.
Breton in Mexico
By Dylan Brennan.
I. The Idiot
A feathered snake delighted him more
For the absurdity of the juxtaposition
Than any sense of the anthropological
The Surreal was whatever he said it was
And all he had to do was point his finger
At the Dadaist binaries that popped up
For his amusement—QuetzalButterfly
Provocation / Evocation
By Dylan Brennan.
February 9, 1928 at the Studio des Ursulines: the story of Antonin Artaud’s disagreement with Germaine Dulac over her treatment of his screenplay for La Coquille et le Clergyman is as well known as it is mired in confusion.