Minute-Operas

by Frédéric Forte

Poetry. Translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker, Ian Monk, Michelle Noteboom, and Jean-Jacques Poucel. These MINUTE-OPERAS are poems "staged" on the page. A simple 3" vertical line separates what Forte calls the stage and the wings. The poet explores the potential of this form with multiple typographic games, calling on different registers of the language, different poetic techniques. The poems also constitute, in their cryptic way, a journal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193619418X
• ISBN13: 9781936194186
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Burning Deck
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"