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Like Bits of Wind: Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose, 1974-2014
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.
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Like Bits of Wind: Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose, 1974-2014
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.
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Like Bits of Wind: Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose, 1974-2014

Like Bits of Wind: Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose, 1974-2014

Like Bits of Wind: Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose, 1974-2014

Like Bits of Wind: Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose, 1974-2014

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857423382
Publisher: Seagull Books
Publication date: 07/15/2016
Series: The Swiss List
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Pierre Chappuis was born in Tavennes, Switzerland in 1930 and has published numerous volumes of poetry and prose.


John Taylor has translated several French writers and poets into English. He is the author of several books, including the three-volume essay collection Paths to Contemporary French Literature, as well as The Apocalypse Tapestries and If Night Is Falling.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Translating Pierre Chappuis
Full Margins
Blind Distance
Abstracted from Time
The Black of Summer
Within the Voice’s Reach
Cuts
from The Proof is in the Void
Notes
Acknowledgements
 
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