Cinepoems and Others (NYRB Poets)

Cinepoems and Others (NYRB Poets)

Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerful lyric poetic voice; a renegade surrealist who was also a highly original existential philosopher; a self-consciously Jewish poetÂ of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy in 1944 just before his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was murdered, yet whose poetry speaks of an overflowing plenitude. This bilingual selection is the first volume of Fondaneâ€™s poetry to appear in English, and it includes a broad sample of his work, from the coruscating and comic cinepoems of his surrealist years, to philosophical meditations, to poems that in their secular and mystical Judaism confront the historical calamityâ€”and imaginative triumphâ€”of European Jewry.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Poets
Binding Paperback
Color Teal/Turquoise green
ReleaseDate 2016-05-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590179000

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