Cold Spring in Winter - new book

ISBN: 9781904614302

When Valerie Rouzeau's first poem sequence was published in France a decade ago under the title "Pas Revoir", it met with immediate critical acclaim. These poems are an urgent, stammered … More...

When Valerie Rouzeau's first poem sequence was published in France a decade ago under the title "Pas Revoir", it met with immediate critical acclaim. These poems are an urgent, stammered lament for her dead father, a scrap-merchant, in which the poet's adult voice and that of the little girl she used to be combine in an extraordinary blend of baby-talk, youthful slang, coinages and puns - a breathless delivery of tremendous power. The influential poet and critic Andre Velter has described Rouzeau's poetry as 'violent in its capacity to exalt and disturb'. This quality comes to the fore in Susan Wicks' remarkable translation, the excellence and ingenuity of which, in Stephen Romer's words at the conclusion of his introduction to this volume, 'make good the transposition of this pure and singular voice into English'. Books<

ISBN: 9781904614302

Paperback, [PU: Arc Publications], A collection of poems that lament for the poet's dead father in the stammered cadences of an adult and the child she used to be., Poetry By Individual P… More...

Paperback, [PU: Arc Publications], A collection of poems that lament for the poet's dead father in the stammered cadences of an adult and the child she used to be., Poetry By Individual Poets<

2020

ISBN: 1904614302

Kartoniert / Broschiert POETRY / General, Poetry; French Translation; prize-winning translator, mit Schutzumschlag neu, [PU:Arc Publications]

2009, ISBN: 9781904614302

Buch, Softcover, [PU: Arc Publications], Arc Publications, 2009