See Tom Clark's homage to Pierre Reverdy 
on the Vanitas blog edited by Vincent Katz. It includes a passage from an Ashbery article on Reverdy (from the early 1960s), Frank O'Hara's poem "A Step Away from Them" ("A glass of papaya juice / and baxck to wrek. My heart is in my / pocket. It is Poems by Pierre Reverdy"), photos of Reverdy, more.
Sur chaque ardoise
On each slate
that slipped
from the roof
someone
had written
a poem
The gutter's lined with diamonds
the birds sip them
— Pierre Reverdy