Daybook 1918: Early Fragments

Daybook 1918: Early Fragments is the first substantial selection in English from the prose poetry of the major Catalan writer J. V. Foix. The core of Lawrence Venuti's edition is forty-five prose poems from the beginning of Foix's career, supplemented by additional poems in prose and verse, prose fictions, and essays that immerse the reader in the heady cultural ferment of early twentieth-century Catalonia. Deeply committed to the European avant-gardes, Foix explored experimental poetics in...