Selected Poems Philippe Jaccottet

by Philippe Jaccottet

Book Overview

Philippe Jaccottet is one of a group of poets who turned away from the Surrealists sometimes abstruse experiments with form in favor of a muted lyrical expression born of a quasi-fraternal bonding with the wonder of earth, light, water, sky. This lyricism is steeped in an ambiguous sense of our planet s vulnerability in this nuclear age. Jaccottet s work has now developed steadily over nearly four decades as Derek Mahon points out in his introductory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916390314
• ISBN13: 9780916390310
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.5"