Description

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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.

About the Author

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Thomas Rain Crowe is an internationally-published and recognized author and translator of more than thirty books, including the multi-award winning nonfiction nature memoir Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods (2005); an historical novel The Watcher: Like Sweet Bells Jangled (2015) and several collections of poems including Radiogenesis (2007) and The Laugharne Poems published in Wales in 1997 by Carreg Gwalch.