If There Were Anywhere but Desert: The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabes
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.21 (527 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0882680528 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 124 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-11 |
| Language | : | French |
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. His titles include HEGEL'S FAMILY, THE OPPOSITE OF LETTING THE MIND WANDER: SELECTED POEMS AND A FEW SONGS, SHIPWRECK IN HAVEN: TRANSCENDENTAL STUDIES, The Balustrade, Light While There is Light, THE LOCALITY PRINCIPLE, ANALOGIES OF ESCAPE and HAUNT. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and DAAD (Berlin). Transla
His beautifully cryptic vision marries mysticism, surrealism, and the "new" semiotics. . From Library Journal This publication may be one of the high points in recent poetry. of California, Berkeley, Lib.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. The long poems are powerful evocations of anxiety and longing, comparable to Breton and Lamantia; emotion and vocabulary reach a pitch in poems like "Slumber Inn": "The world loses its waterfalls/ its dawn bells of granite/ An image to skim in all directions
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Ignore the book's subtitle This volume contains a six page introduction by Paul Auster and a nineteen page afterword by Robert Duncan. Why does this fact begin my review? Simply because both are essays on The Book of Questions rather than Jabes' poetry. The book actually contains only ten poems from I Build My