Introduction • from LE GRAN JEU (1928) (THE BIG GAME) • Tortured Girls • The Beauties of Heaven and Earth • Desperate Ardor • There Is Only One Wonder on Earth • Human Flesh • Toward the West • Jesus Was Talking to His Sister-in-Law • The Evolution of a Pretty Woman • I’ll Go How About You • 26 Points to Specify • Memoirs of Benjamin Péret • The Language of the Saints • The Last Don Juan of the Night • Spilled Blood • The Odors of Love • from DE DERRIERE LES FAGOTS (1934) (FROM THE HIDDEN STOREHOUSE) • Face to Be Smacked • In the White of Their Eyes • To Sleep Standing Up • A Thousand Times • At the Back of Beyond • Post No Bills • To Pass the Time • A Millimeter Apart • He Didn’t Know What to Do with Himself • Decent Folk • Left Without Giving a Forwarding Address • Half a Fig Half a Grape • New Wine • Stale Bread • A Bunch of Carrots • Till Tomorrow • Halfway • Lend Me Your Pen • To Wash Your Hands • Warped • Ruminant • A Trumped-up Quarrel • Sleepless Nights • One More One Less • Arm in Arm • Badly Shaven • To Wait on the Street Corner • from JE NE MANGE PAS DE CE PAIN-LA (I WON’T STOOP TO THAT) • The Death of Mother Cognacq • Little Song of the Maimed • The Law Paul Boncour • Louis XVI Goes to the Guillotine • Joan of Arc • Hymn of the Patriotic War Veterans • The Eucharistic Congress of Chicago • Nungesser Und Coli Sind Verreckt • The Tour de France Bicycle Racer • from JE SUBLIME (1936) (I SUBLIMATE) • Wandering Around Lost • The Square of the Hypotenuse • Wink • Source • Hello • I’m Not Asleep • Talk to Me • To Wait • Listen • When Will It Be • Nebulous • from UN POINT C’EST TOUT (1947) (THAT’S ALL THERE IS TO IT) • A Couple of Words • To Be Continued • I Don’t Want To • Right Now • Monday • Always • Somebody’s Ringing • Where Are You