Like Bits of Wind: Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose, 1974-2014 (The Swiss List)
Chappuis, Pierre
ISBN 10: 085742338X ISBN 13: 9780857423382
Published by Seagull Books, 2016
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One of the central figures from a remarkable generation of French-language poets, Pierre Chappuis has thus far only been represented in English translation in fragments: a few poems here and there in magazines, online reviews, and anthologies. Like Bits of Wind rights that wrong, offering a generous selection of Chappuis’s poetry and prose from the past forty years, drawn from several of his books. In these pages, Chappuis delves into long-standing questions of the essence of life, our relationship to landscape, the role of the perceiving self, and much more. His skeletal, haiku-like verse starkly contrasts with his more overtly poetic prose, which revels in sinuous lines and interpolated parentheticals. Together, the different forms are invigorating and exciting, the perfect introduction for English-language readers.
About the Authors:
Pierre Chappuis was born in Tavennes, Switzerland in 1930 and has published numerous volumes of poetry and prose.
John Taylor has translated many key French, Swiss, Italian, and modern Greek writers. His translations include books by Philippe Jaccottet, Georges Perros, Catherine Colomb, and Pierre Chappuis, as well as Pascal Quignard's The Unsaddled and Dying of Thinking. Taylor is also the author of several books of poetry and poetic prose, including, most recently, What Comes from the Night.
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Title: Like Bits of Wind: Selected Poetry and ...
Publisher: Seagull Books
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: very_good