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Guillevic - Selected Poems (Paperback)
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Guillevic - Selected Poems (Paperback)
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Loot Price R429
Discovery Miles 4 290
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This bilingual collection of Eugene Guillevic's work, chosen from
six of his books published between 1942 and 1966, and translated by
the poet Denise Levertov, introduces American readers to a
highly-acclaimed French poet. Guillevic was born in Carnac in 1907
of peasant stock. He sees the profoundly austere Breton landscapes
(and all else in life) not as incidental backgrounds, but as
elemental, living presences. His poems embody his indignation at
the use and misuse of some human beings by others--as well as his
cold and clear understanding of historical process. Like William
Carlos Williams, he has a sharp eye, and as Miss Levertov points
out in her introduction, "the simplicity of diction, the plain and
hard meaning of things without descriptive qualification,
reverberates, in the highly charged condensation of Guillevic's
poems, with the ambiguity, the unfathomable mystery of natural
objects." In translating these poems, Denise Levertov has drawn
upon the affinity that exists between her own style and
Guillevic's. She has attained comparable effects of concision and
clarity and has reproduced with great subtlety the characteristic
rhythm and cadence patterns of the French originals.
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