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The Figure Of The Young American Poet Living In Paris Is Familiar From Paul Auster's Celebrated Novels; Here That Character Is Realised In Auster's Own Stunningly Accomplished Verse. His Penetrating And Charged Poetry Resembles Little Else In Recent American Literature. This Collection Of His Poems, Translations, And Composition Notes From Early In His Career Furnish Yet Further Evidence Of His Literary Mastery. Taut, Densely Lyrical And Everywhere Informed By A Powerful And Subtle Music, This Selection Begins With The Compact Verse Fragments Of Spokes (written When Auster Was In His Early Twenties) And Unearth, Continues On Through The More Ample Meditations Of Wall Writing, Disappearances, Effigies, Fragments From The Cold, Facing The Music, And White Spaces, Then Moves Further Back In Time To Include Auster's Revealing Translations Of Many Of The French Poets Who Influenced His Own Writing - Including Paul Eluard, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupault, Robert Desnos And René Char - As Well As The Provocative And Previously Unpublished 'notes From A Composition Book' (1967). An Introduction By Norman Finkelstein Connects Biographical Elements To A Consideration Of The Wo

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Author

Paul Auster

Publisher

Faber & Faber, Limited

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571317233

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Poetry, American Poetry

Rating

3.58 / 5 (187 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14