Collected poems
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2004 - Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
51,250 words, Guess
Page Count
205 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3692445M
- ISBN-101585674044
- OCLC Control Number53485202
- OCLC Control Numbercollectedpoems00aust
- Library of Congress Control Number2003064980
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- Goodreads464
- LibraryThing6470234
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3551.U77 A6 2004b
Description
"Paul Auster's penetrating and charged verse resembles little else in recent American poetry. Taut, densely lyrical, and everywhere informed by a powerful and subtle music, this collection begins with the compact fragments of 'Spokes' and 'Unearth' (both written when Auster was in his early twenties), continues on through the more ample meditations of 'Wall writing', 'Disappearances', 'Effigies', 'Fragments from the cold', 'Facing the music' and 'White spaces', then moves further back in time to include Auster's revealing translations of many of the French poets who influenced his own writing, including Paul Éluard, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupault, Robert Desnos, and René Char, as well as the provocative and previously unpublished 'Notes from a composition book' (1967). An introduction by Norman Finkelstein connects biographical elements to a consideration of the work and takes in Auster's early literary and philosophical influences"--Bookjacket.
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