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The Last Verses of Jules Laforgue is the first full-length collection of free verse published in the French language and, in many ways, it remains far in advance of any free verse innovations conjured in the past one hundred years and more. Laforgue, in his famous Complaints and Harlequinades, was a profound influence upon such Modernist poets as Eliot and Pound. Yet in his Last Verses he set a precedent which no one as yet has managed to emulate or to advance. Why should this be? Simply put, Last Verses does not reject poetic formalism but, rather, projects it into uncharted and unvoiced regions of spiritual and sexual extremity. The freedom of these poems rests entirely in the purity of their despair, a purity not to be measured by any extant means. This music is made by no instrument but itself. This music is made on the farther shore of death.
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Donald Revell has won the PEN USA Award for Poetry twice and has won the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize. He is a former fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. He lives in Las Vegas.
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Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the first edition in English with full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the publisher's prelims copyright page. Translated by Donald Revell. Bilingual parallel French-English text. ***Near fine in colour illustrated wrappers. No tears. No inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. Spine tight. No reading creases to spine. Wrappers bright. 230 mm x 154mm. 93 pages including a note about the author plus one-page note about the translator and publisher's continuation copyright page to rear. ***'The Last Verse of Jules Laforgue is considered by many to be the first full-length collection of free verse published in the French language and, in many ways, it remains far in advance of any free verse innovations conjured in the past one hundred years. Laforgue was a profound influence upon such modernist poets as Eliot and Pound. Yet in his Last Verses he sets a precedent which no one as yet has managed to emulate or to advance. Last Verses does nor reject poetic formalism, but rather, projects it into uncharted and unvoiced regions of spiritual and sexual extremity.' (Quote from rear of wrapper blurb). ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 4443
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. A full-length collection from a classic French symbolist poet that explores an innovative, organic form of free verse. Juxtaposing common objects with romantic ideals, it projects the authors ideas into uncharted territories of spiritual realms, sexual extr. Seller Inventory # 597140069
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