Lost Body
by Aimé Césaire
with illustrations by Pablo Picasso

This collection unites Aimé Césaire's poems with illustrations made for them by Pablo Picasso. As a leading proponent of négritude, Césaire's poems explore black culture, awareness, and selfhood, and these themes attracted Picasso to them. Fascinated by her use of surrealist structure and metaphor in her exploration of black-African origins, the artist, for whom primitivism and surrealism had been equally important to his development, sought to create a visual equivalent. The result is a splendid example of artistic collaboration by two of the century's most inventive minds.

Paperback, ISBN 978-0-8076-1148-7 $14.95