{"product_id":"dont-say-no-no-to-dada-lavinia-leon-9798262748211","title":"don't say no-no to dada","description":"This journey in the company of Dada (as [mis]understood by a Romanian-Canadian who's been fascinated with Dada for three decades - and has the collaborative poems with titles such as \"Nuclear Loves\" to prove it) is only as long as you want it to be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you like questioning meaning, but also the idea that there \u003ci\u003ecan be\u003c\/i\u003e one at all, you might like this chap-zine-workbook. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you suspect there might be sense even in \"nonsense\", and that some patterns could be in the eyes of the pattern-seeker, you might enjoy the speculation in which this book originates. Could two poets born one year and barely two hundred miles apart, who walked very different literary-philosophical paths (Lucian Blaga and Tristan Tzara) have anything in common, even if that's the tension of apparent opposites? One sought meaning in ways referred to as \"neo-Kantian,\" and his poetry is imbued with the sense that, in his own words, \"eternity was born in the village\" - even as he wrote about metaphysics. The other was, among several who frequented the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich around the time of the Great War, responsible for the birth of the Dada movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is no overt philosophy, history, or literary commentary in this book, but there\u003ci\u003e is\u003c\/i\u003e a lot of ludic intention - \u003cb\u003eplay\u003c\/b\u003e as a means to un-writer's-block creativity. There \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e two short deconstruction-reconstruction experiments, a couple of comments on translating poetry, and a few cubist artworks, together with a handful of open-ended, Dada-inspired exercises for the reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lavinia Leon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798262748211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d","brand":"Lavinia Leon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447113756927,"sku":"9798262748211","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eab7f956-da54-45c3-8eb5-8be540d5e45a.jpg?v=1777228913","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dont-say-no-no-to-dada-lavinia-leon-9798262748211","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}