Orphic Paris Contributor(s): Cole, Henri (Author) |
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ISBN: 1681372185 ISBN-13: 9781681372181 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places - Literary Collections | Diaries & Journals |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2017050815 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.7" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 176 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole. Henri Cole's Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family, poetry and solitude, the self and freedom. Cole writes of Paris, "For a time, I lived here, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man, I cared fully for myself, and felt no guilt and confessed nothing, and in this place I wrote, I was nourished, and I grew." Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheus--mystic, oracular, entrancing--Orphic Paris is an intimate Paris journal and a literary commonplace book that is a touching, original, brilliant account of the city and of the artists, writers, and luminaries, including Cole himself, who have been moved by it to create. |