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Sherman, Cindy

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1954-

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Inverted Odysseys / Cahun, Claude ; Deren, Maya ; Sherman, Cindy ; Schneemann C ; Piper A ; Wilson M ; Weems CM ; Smith M., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-34219-35906
Scope and Contents

Several shaped typewriter poems by Claude Cahun are reproduced from her previously unpublished homoerotic, feminist, set in ancient Greek, novel, "Heroines." It was translated by Norman MacAfee from a manuscript written in English and French in 1925. The typings include a mathematical poem, a French shoe, an arc of triumph, punctuation poems and a goblet. Several aphorisms appear in the novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999