Bravig Imbs
Bravig Imbs was an American novelist and poet.
Biography
Bravig Imbs was born in 1904 in Milwaukee to Norwegian-American parents. A graduate of Dartmouth College,[1] he worked as a proofreader for the 'International Edition of the Chicago Tribune in Paris.[2]
In Paris he befriended George Antheil, Pavel Tchelitchew, René Crevel, Georges Maratier, and later Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.[2] [3] In 1931, his wife Valeska gave birth to a child, and Gertrude Stein ended their friendship because of her aversion to childbirth.[2]
He wrote novels, poems and a memoir, and played the harpsichord.[4][5] He translated some poems by Georges Hugnet.[6] He also co-wrote books with Bernard Fay and André Breton.
In 1944, he worked as a radio announcer, under the pseudonym of 'Monsieur Bobby'.[3] He was killed in a car accident shortly after.[3]
Bibliography
- The Professor's Wife
- Eden—Exit this Way, and Other Poems (1926)
- Bernard Faÿ's Franklin: The Apostle of Modern Times (co-written with Bernard Fay; 1929)
- Confessions of Another Young Man (1936)
- Yves Tanguy (co-written with André Breton; 1946)
- The Wind was There (This poem by Bravig Imbs has been set to music for high voice and orchestra by composer Michael B. Matthews [1982]; and has also been set to music by Mark Winges as "Image and Motion: A Choral Symphony" [2001])
References
- ^ John Malcolm Brinnin, The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World, P. Smith, 1968, p. 279 [1]
- ^ a b c Linda Simon, The Biography of Alice B. Toklas, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991, pp. 168-170 [2]
- ^ a b c Linda Simon, The Biography of Alice B. Toklas, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991, pp. 117-118 [3]
- ^ Bravig Imbs, 'Poem', in Pagany, Richard Johns (ed.), Kraus Reprint Corp., 1931, p. 92 [4]
- ^ James R. Mellow, Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company, Henry Holt and Co., 2003, p. 323
- ^ Ulla E. Dydo, Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises - 1923-1934 (Avant-garde and Modernism Studies), Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2003, p. 321 [5]
