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Poetry in a time of upheaval Equal parts dramatic and symphonic,
the poetry of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen provides acute insight into the
European consciousness of the first half of the twentieth century.
With energetic innovation and imaginative depth, Dadelsen extols
the somber beauty of his Alsatian homeland, grapples with the
elusiveness of meaning, and decries religion's futile attempts to
speak to a continent ravaged by fascism and war. His is an acerbic
and humane assessment of French and European identity that draws on
the past and imagines the future, while remaining firmly rooted in
the present. In these poems, Dadelsen modulates himself in dramatic
monologue, exploring a mosaic of voices to form a composite
portrait of the postwar landscape. Inhabiting such characters as
King Solomon, Johann Sebastian Bach, provincial French women, and a
Hungarian resistant in the 1956 uprising, the poems in this new
bilingual collection offer an inside look at the shifting cultural
topography of midcentury Europe, forged in the war that reshaped
our understanding of the human condition.
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