The River Underground: Selected Poems & Prose (English and French Edition) by Jean Tardieu ISBN 13: 9781852240998

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Paperback / softback. New. Jean Tardieu’s poetry has an almost child-like simplicity, and in France his work is studied both in universities and in primary schools. Yet while he is a household name in France and has been translated into most European languages, his poetry remains little known in the English-speaking world, despite its immediacy and sense of fun. Tardieu is a writer of enormous range, and his poetry addresses problems of experience and language central to modern literature, bringing lively wit and humour to bear upon an anguished interrogation of the world. His father was a successful painter and his mother an accomplished musician, and his fascination with the art of the writer on the one hand, and paintings and music on the other, is another constant presence in his work. Tardieu was born in 1903, and this selection spans 80 years of his writing. In his early years the difficulties of writing lyric poetry in a schizophrenic age led him to a… Read More

Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1992. Paperback. New. 206 pages. French language. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches.

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Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1991-12-31. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!