Her poetry was a wild dance of the senses. Written in English and German, it was charged with libidinal images and provocative barbs far more aggressive than the gender disruptions of Edna Saint Vincent Millay, Djuna Barnes, Dorothy Parker, and Mina Loy. In the German poem "Analytische Chemie der Frucht," "Analytical Chemistry of Progeny", the high-strung Baroness reflects on the genesis of her Dada spirit. Her bold use of obscenity, blasphemy, and scatology was a legacy from her father. The tensions of her early home life, her parents' "marriage manure" had produced a stunning Dada personality who embodied the movement's spirit of paradox, "Genius - idiocy - filth - purity", all in one person.

      Irene Gammel

"She Strips Naked"

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The Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing has been published quarterly by Fairleigh Dickinson University since 1957. Its many special issues have introduced new fiction, poetry, and essays from many nations, regions, or languages to English readers. Issues focus on such topics as contemporary fiction in Portugese, Iranian exiles, new Irish writing, North African authors, and Philippine fiction and poetry. Works from issues devoted to writing in English have won awards and been reprinted in many collections.

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