The most important prosepoem collection of the 20th century available in a trade publication for the first timeMax Jacobs role in French modernity was essential and with this second volume of his work from Wakefield Press it can now be fully and properly assessed. First published in 1917 The Dice Cup stands alongside Baudelaires Paris Spleen Rimbauds Illuminations and Pierre Reverdys Prose Poems as one of the most important and foundational books of prose poetry. Jacob has been identified as a cubist poet but this collection and its shifting style escape any such easy definition dream accounts are rendered in playful prose that thumbs its nose at the fabular tradition of Baudelaire and Mallarm and the Romantic disorder of Rimbaud and subverts both poetic and narrative expectations in favor of dream logic allusion transformed autobiography and nonsensical parody.