ABSTRACT
As Mary Ann Caws declares, Dada was as much an attitude as a movement. Since the early 1950s, Dada has experienced a revival as neo-Dada and continues to play an important role in literature and art. Inspired by the Armory Show in 1913, which exposed New Yorkers to the latest European artistic trends for the first time, Manhattan experienced a ten-year period of daring experimentation that has come to be known as New York Dada. The examples of Dada poetry can be appreciated by anyone anywhere in the world. Since they speak for themselves, there is no need to translate them into another language. By contrast, a great many Dada poems are deliberately eccentric but not impossible to understand. Although some poets simply wrote for themselves, the majority published their compositions in Dada journals and thus needed to communicate with their readers to some degree.
