I Have Seen Monsters and Angels

Synopsis

"A self-described "autobiography of the night mind", I Have Seen Monsters and Angels (transition press, 1938) is the most extensive collection of Eugene Jolas's poetic writings published in his lifetime. Moving between English, French, and German-and featuring freewheeling coinages in all three-the poems, dreams, and brief prose pieces collected here stand as the culmination of Jolas's mystical approach to plumbing the depths of the unconscious dreaming mind, akin to but wholly separate from his Surrealist colleagues"