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Dechirures, Joyce Mansour
Dechirures, Joyce Mansour
Dechirures, Joyce Mansour
Joyce Mansour (1928 -1986) was born Joyce Patricia Ads, in Bowden,
England to Jewish-Egyptian parents. She lived in Cairo where she first came in
contact with Parisian surrealism and then moved to Paris in 1953 where she
became the best known Surrealist woman poet, author of 16 books of poetry,
as well as a number of important prose and theater pieces. Equally
impressive were the painters who illustrated her work ranging from
Alechinsky, Bellmer, Benoit to Max Walter Svanberg and Wilfredo Lam. Hubert
Nyssen, her friend, collected all of her disparate texts and published them in
his Joyce Mansour, Prose & Posie (Arles: Actes Sud, 1992).