I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and ProvocationPoet, painter, self described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada movement; indeed, Andr Breton called Picabia one of the only "true" Dadas. Yet very little of Picabia's poetry and prose has been translated into English, and his literary experiments have never been the subject of close critical study. I Am a Beautiful Monster is the first definitive edition in English