The Inner Trees: Selected Poems of Yvan Goll

by Yvan Goll

"Goll was in the avant-garde of various literary scenes. A central figure in the German world of Dada and Expressionism in Berlin; a founder alongside Eulard and Apollinaire of the French Surrealist movement in Paris; friend and collaborator with Picasso, Leger, Dali, Braque, Chagall, Tanguy and James Joyce; playwright and precursor to Ionesco’s “Theatre of the Absurd,” and Artaud’s “Theatre of Cruelty”; the celebrated editor of Hemispheres magazine in the U.S. and friends of William Carlos Williams, James Laughlin of New Directions, and Kenneth and Miriam Patchen, among others."

Genres: Poetry

140 pages, Paperback

Published May 14, 2019

About the author

Also known as Ivan Goll, pseudonym of Isaac Lang.

Yvan Goll was a French-German poet who was bilingual and wrote in both French and German. He had close ties to both German expressionism and to French surrealism.

Reviews

[Timbo · Rating 5 out of 5]

My only regret on reading this magnificent collection is that it was too short. There needs to be a full collection of Goll's poems available in English.

[Quietly Reading · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful surrealist poems, love this book of selected imagistic poems; especially his later works. For fans of surrealist and imagist poetry to be read again and again.