Unbroken Poetry II: Poésie ininterrompue II (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, 5) - Softcover

Éluard, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852241349 ISBN 13: 9781852241346

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Eluard, Paul

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Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)
Original Language: French

From Booklist:

The fine last book of the prolific Eluard, here in a bilingual edition, is a rapturous and expansive series of long poems that reflects on the importance of love in sustaining revolutionary efforts to transform society. Love, to Eluard, was a kind of revolution of the spirit, binding one soul to another through, rather than despite, the body. This is love poetry of the greatest passion and the greatest tenderness: "Step by step I recover strength / Find new reasons for loving / And the world from under its shell / Gives me its sap that runs / Into the long stream of our kisses." Gilbert Bowen's translations well capture the breathless yet utterly certain quality of Eluard's French. Jill Lewis' introduction begins in rather heavy-handed theory but finally provides sufficient formal and biographical information for even new readers to appreciate this formidable poet. Patricia Monaghan

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1852241349
• ISBN 13: 9781852241346
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 154