The American Poetry Review, March 1st, 2005
FORCE-MARCHED BY THE NAZIS RETREATing from the concentration camp at Floha, arriving at the Terezin camp the day before the war ended, Robert Desnos was recognized by two Czech medical students from Man Ray's photograph of him in Andre Breton's novel Nadja. "Do you know the poet Robert Desnos?" one of the students asked him. "I am Robert Desnos, the French poet," he answered. Happy to find that they knew French, he talked about Surrealism, Paris and freedom during his few final days, holding a rose the students had given him, refusing to give it up even when it had faded. He was cremated wit...
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