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Desiderata

Desiderata

Descloux, Lizzy Mercier
Smith, Patti
Ramadan, Emma

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Series: Inpatient Press / Mercurial Editions

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ISBN10: 1965874088
ISBN13: 9781965874080
Publisher: Inpatient Press
Published: Mar 25 2025
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Musician Lizzy Mercier Descloux's kaleidoscopic foray into collage and poetry, translated and reprinted for the first time in 50 years.

Desiderata is a collection of Lizzy Mercier Descloux's poetry, photos, and diaristic fragments from her visit to New York City in the winter of 1975. Only eighteen at the time, Descloux fell into the orbits of the nascent No Wave scene festering in Lower Manhattan, where she befriended Richard Hell, Patti Smith, and ZE Records founder Michel Esteban. Desiderata charts the musician's early ambitions as a writer, revealing a potent poetic voice that careens from acid-tinged social observations to outright Dadaist semantic revelry, interspersed with collages and hand-written notes. Originally composed entirely in French, this is the first time these works have ever appeared in English and this edition includes the original French facsimile bound tête-bêche with the new English translation.

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