Gabriel Pomerand

Gabriel Pomerand (c. 1926 - 1972) was a French poet, artist and a co-founder of lettrism.[3] He was born in Paris and moved to Alsace at a young age, and then on to Marseille where he worked as a student for the Resistance. His mother was deported to Auschwitz, yet he survived.

Gabriel Pomerand
Born(1926-06-13)June 13, 1926[1]
Paris
DiedJuly 1972 (aged 46)[2]
Corsica
OccupationPoet, artist
NationalityFrench
GenreLettrism

After the war, he moved back to Paris. Here he met Isidore Isou, with whom he founded the lettrist movement.[3] He wrote Saint Ghetto of the Loans, a book of "politically charged urban rebuses", in 1950.[4] Isou expelled him from the movement in 1956, after which he turned to opium.[3] He committed suicide in 1972 in Corsica.

References
  1. Letaillieur, François (1988). Le demi-siècle lettriste. Paris: Galerie 1900-2000. p. 60. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  2. Lowry, Malcolm (1995). Sursum corda!: the collected letters of Malcolm Lowry. Toronto Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. p. 123. ISBN 9780802041180.
  3. Marcus, Greil (1 September 1990). Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press. pp. 250–251. ISBN 978-0-674-53581-7. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  4. "Fiction review: Saint Ghetto of the Loans". Publishers Weekly. 2006-06-26. Retrieved April 26, 2012.



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