Simultaneities & Lyric Chemisms

Apollinaire called Ardengo Soffici’s visual poetics “very important work, rich in fresh beauties.” With unexpected lyricism, buzzing between the entropic and the erotic, these poems manifest Futurism’s fascination with the metropolis. Simultaneities & Lyric Chemisms is a vital reconstruction of Italian Futurist poet Ardengo Soffici’s visual poetics, presenting his seminal work for the first time in English in Olivia Sears’s exacting translations. [publishers’ note]