A Woman with Several Lives
Jean Daive$12.75
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From one of America's finest experimental poets, this translation of a contemplation of the life of Lorine Niedecker, a stellar American poet of the mid-twentieth century. This work stands as a monument to the important conversation between French and American experimental poets.
All the children are swaddled
as white
as
dried beans
sheltered from the air
for time
even recycles
pots
of jam
Indian graves
at lake
Koshkonong
and upon this memory
a ball rolls
up to the sacred
excavations.
The golfers
play
among the corpses.
Jean Daive is the author of fifteen volumes of poetry and seven works of fiction. He lives in Paris, France.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: La Presse
Published: 04/17/2012
ISBN: 9781934200513
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d