Baroness Elsa's em dashes

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The purpose of the em dash is wide-ranging—as an appropriation of silence, as acting dissonance, as interruption, as occupying space. This anthology zooms into the pointed use of e m dashes in the poems of pioneering Dadaist artist, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927). moreHer poems, performances, costumes and life-style all made a point of challenging extremely bourgeois artistic and moral conventions with an unapologetically feminist, proto-punk aesthetic. The reader will find Elsa’s works in conversation with the likes of well-known dashers such as Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Sterne, Heinrich von Kleist or the queen of dashing herself Emily Dickinson. Show more