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He was at the centre of the French poetry and culture for fifteen of the headiest years of the century. After settling in Paris in 1910, Reverdy founded the influential journal Nord-Sud with Max Jacob and Guillauma Apollinaire, which drew togethr the first Surrealists. Associated with painters such as Picasso, Gris and Braque, he has been called a Cubist poet, for conventional structure is eliminated in his poesie brut ('raw poetry'), muchas the painters cut away surface appearance to bring thro..
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