Approximate Man: Book I

A translation of book one in Tristan Tzara's surrealist epic poem

Note: My translation of the first book appears at the bottom of this post.

Last week, I began with book III in my translation of Tzara’s long poem, Approximate Man, but now I’m stepping back to begin going through it in order. There are nineteen books in all, running around 150 pages total, and with this one complete I’m just a bit over 10% done. I expec…