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Saint Ghetto of the Loans.(Brief article)(Book review)
Saint Ghetto of the Loans
Gabriel Pomerand, trans. from the French by Michael Kasper and Bhamati Viswanathan. Ugly Duckling (SPD, dist.), $14 paper (120p) ISBN 1-933254-18-1
This gorgeous book of politically charged urban rebuses was written in Paris in 1950 by Pomerand, the associate of Isidore Isou, who lead the artistic Lettrist movement into the French headlines with its postwar provocations. Known to readers in the U.S., if at all, only through Greil Marcus's descriptions of the French edition in Lipstick Traces, the book appears here for the first time in this lovingly produced bilingual edition. It consists of toughly enigmatic texts--"This …
