Contributions

  • Schwartz, Leonard, 1963- editor, translator - Contributor
  • Abidor, Mitchell, translator - Contributor
  • Bailey, Marianne, translator - Contributor
  • Cioran, E. M., translator - Contributor
  • Hacker, Marilyn, 1942- translator - Contributor
and 3 more
  • King, Henry, translator - Contributor
  • Rubens, Andrew, translator - Contributor
  • Rudavsky-Brody, Nathaniel, translator - Contributor

Publication

2016 - New York Review Books, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

55,000 words, Guess

Page Count

220 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101590179005
  • ISBN-139781590179000
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015021020
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015021282
  • OCLC Control Number900594539
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781590179000
  • Open LibraryOL27207305M

Classifications

  • DDC841/.912
  • LCCPQ2611.O63 A2 2016
  • LCCPQ2611.O63 A2 2015
and 2 more
  • LCCPQ2611.O63
  • LCCPQ2611.O63A2 2015

Description

"Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerfully lyric poetic style; a near-surrealist who embraced and produced his own version of existential philosophy; a Romanian poet who wrote in French; a self-consciously Jewish poet of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy just before his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, where he was murdered, yet whose poetry speaks of a plenitude, an overflowing. After Fondane's death, the poetry might have been forgotten had not writers like E.M. Cioran kept the memory of the work alive, and in France today, Fondane's poetry is again widely available. This first American collection of Fondane's poetry includes his surrealist "Cine-poems," philosophical meditations, and poems that, in their secular/mystical Judaism, confront the calamity--and imaginative triumph--of European Jewry. Poems included in this collection are translated by Mitch Abidor, Marianne Bailey, E.M. Cioran, Joseph Donahue, Eric Freedman, Henry King, Andrew Rubens, Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, and Leonard Schwartz"--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • NYRB/poets
  • New York Review Books poets

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