Wings Folded in Cracks Selected Poems |
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| Author:
| Vallotton, Jean-Pierre |
| Translator:
| D'Alfonso, Antonio |
| Series title: | Essential Translations Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-55071-796-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2013 |
| Publisher: | Guernica Editions, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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Where other poets of his generation developed strategies of deconstruction, Jean-Pierre Vallotton invented a brave new mosaic with the parameters left behind by traditionalism, modernism and post-modernism. If William Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, T S Eliot are considered decadent, then so is Jean-Pierre Vallotton a decadent; however, the sort of decadent that will be viewed as being great in years to come: "The space between us is a path of magnificence, and here the faintest of our...
More DescriptionWhere other poets of his generation developed strategies of deconstruction, Jean-Pierre Vallotton invented a brave new mosaic with the parameters left behind by traditionalism, modernism and post-modernism. If William Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, T S Eliot are considered decadent, then so is Jean-Pierre Vallotton a decadent; however, the sort of decadent that will be viewed as being great in years to come: "The space between us is a path of magnificence, and here the faintest of our footsteps draws forth a flower". His neo-baroque poetry stands at the crossroads of whatever styles, forms, and contents led to this spot; and it is with the pernicious artefacts found here that Jean-Pierre Vallotton invents the unknown structures that will welcome the birds of paradise of tomorrow.