| Selected Poems Jacques Dupin US Edition Contributor(s): Dupin, Jacques (Author), Auster, Paul (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0916390527 ISBN-13: 9780916390525 Publisher: Wake Forest University Press OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - French |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| LCCN: 92053715 |
| Series: Contemporary French Poetry in Translation |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 8.96" W x 5.44" (0.61 lbs) 206 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this volume, Paul Auster has selected prose poems and lyrics from five volumes of Dupin's poetry published over a quarter-century. Sharing affinities and landscapes with Reverdy, Char, and Ponge, Dupin has developed, nevertheless, a poetry so distinctive and innovative to the American ear and eye that it could, especially with this selection, tincture the reading and writing of poetry in the United States. Eschewing theory, he creates speculations that enact the self's effacement, while sustaining the human in brilliant imagery and shadowy narrative. In her introduction to these poems, Mary Ann Caws writes, "Nothing is permitted a reach higher than the human. The very precariousness of living informs this deeply moving poetics, quiet and always at risk." |