1916–1930 Louis Aragon; Antonin Artaud; Georges Bataille ...
The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry,
08/2004
Book Chapter
Dada had a striking and lasting impact on American poetry, from the Beats through the New York School—witness John Cage’s mesostics, Frank O’Hara’s “Second Avenue,” Kenneth Koch’s “When the Sun Tries ...to Go On,” and much of John Ashbery’s work. Now the current generation of young American poets seems to have discovered Dada for itself, finding its “chatty abstractions” as usefully subversive and ironically charming as Dada once did. The excitement of Dada—its performative violence coincident with World War I—was born anew after World War II, when the Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell published his celebratedThe Dada
