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The Loveliest Vowel Empties Say Translation is ArtMeret Oppenheim (trans. Kathleen Heil) The Loveliest Vowel Empties presents for the first time in English the collected poems of legendary Swiss Surrealist Meret Oppenheim, printed with facing page originals in German and French. Oppenheims poetry49 poems written between 1933 and 1980moves beyond Surrealism to inhabit a voice all her own, with imagery and sound that, as the Herald Tribune wrote, express witty and poetic responses to the surprises of

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