Thoroughly Modern Elsa
Since her rediscovery by scholars over a decade ago, photographs of the Baroness have become, in their way, as iconic of the era of Dada as any. More
"Why didst though go away from me?
Say — why?
art not enslaved by balmy wizardry
out of mine jeweled eye?
…
musk — amber — myrrh and frankincense —
gold — damask — ivory —
mine gothic cathedral —
is that upbuild in vain
for thee — ?"
— “Cathedral”, Body Sweats


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