Cinepoems and OthersBy: Benjamin Fondane Series: NYRB Poets Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerful lyric poetic voice; a renegade surrealist who was also a highly original existential philosopher; a self consciously Jewish poet of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy in 1944 just before his deportation to Auschwitz Birkenau, where he was murdered, yet whose poetry speaks of an overflowing plenitude.