BARONESS ELSA'S EM DASHES

This anthology zooms into the pointed use of em dashes in the poems of pioneering Dadaist artist, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Her poems, performances, costumes and life-style all made a point of challenging extremely bourgeois artistic and moral conventions with an unapologetically feminist, proto-punk aesthetic. The reader will find Elsas works in conversation with the likes of well-known dashers such as G. Stein, L. Sterne, H. von Kleist or the queen of dashing herself Emily Dickinson.