The River Underground: Selected Poems & Prose

by Jean Tardieu

Jean Tardieu's poetry has an almost child-like simplicity, and in France his work is studied both in universities and in primary schools. Yet while he is a household name in France and has been translated into most European languages, his poetry remains little known in the English-speaking world, despite its immediacy and sense of fun. Tardieu is a writer of enormous range, and his poetry addresses problems of experience and language central to modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852240997
• ISBN13: 9781852240998
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"