Pierre Reverdy

Pierre Reverdy was born in Narbonne, France in 1889. He set out on his career as a poet when he moved to Paris in 1910. He published his first small volume of poetry, Poems en prose, in 1915, and he continued to write steadily thereafter. Gradually, In 1917 he founded the monthly literary review Nord-Sud, which featured work by the first cubists and surrealists—innovative writers such as Apollinaire, Jacob, Louis Aragon, André Breton, and Philippe Soupault. Reverdy’s many subsequent poetry collections include Cravates de chanvre (1922), Coeur de chene (1921), La Guitare endormie (1919), Les Jockeys camoufles (1918), and La Lucarne ovale (1916). When the collection of his early poems, Les Epaves du ciel, appeared in 1924, Reverdy achieved greater recognition. (Source)