Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth - The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

T. S. Eliot recognized Djuna Barnes as "incontestably one of the most original writers of our time." This collection of Barnes''s early work features journalism (including a firsthand account of the force-feeding endured by suffragettes and an interview with James Joyce), poetry ("The Book of Repulsive Women"), and stories ("Smoke").