ShapeshifterAlice Paalen Rahon Alice Paalen Rahon was a shapeshifter, a surrealist poet turned painter who was born French and died a naturalized citizen of Mexico. Her first husband was the artist Wolfgang Paalen, among her lovers were Pablo Picasso and the poet Valentine Penrose, and over the years her circle of friends included Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Joan Mir, Paul luard, Man Ray, and Anas Nin. This bilingual edition of Rahon's poems confirms the