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- Coco Chanel Reverdy and Chanel were involved from 1921 to 1926 and stayed close for decades after; biographers credit him with helping shape the aphorisms later published under her name, though no verbatim statement from Chanel about his poems survives in a source that could be fetched and checked, so this is listed as a relationship rather than a quote. source ↗
Summary
A collection of poetry by Pierre Reverdy (1889–1960), the French poet associated with Cubism and Surrealism whose elliptical, image-driven work influenced writers from Pablo Picasso to Samuel Beckett. Reverdy's poetry is known for its compression, its visual fragments, and its exploration of the tension between presence and absence.