A certain Plume /
"The figure of Plume preoccupied the great Belgian poet Henri Michaux throughout his career. Plume, meaning feather or pen, is a character who drifts from one thing to another, losing shape, taking new forms, at perpetual risk from reality. He is a personification of the imagination as subject...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Language Notes: | Text in English with parallel text in French; translated from the French. |
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New York :
New York Review Books,
[2018]
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| Edition: | Bilingual edition. |
| Series: | New York Review Books poets.
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| Summary: | "The figure of Plume preoccupied the great Belgian poet Henri Michaux throughout his career. Plume, meaning feather or pen, is a character who drifts from one thing to another, losing shape, taking new forms, at perpetual risk from reality. He is a personification of the imagination as subject to innumerable pratfalls and disgraces, and yet indestructible for all that. In this new bilingual edition, with translations by Richard Sieburth, the entire Plume cycle appears for the first time in English in the form in which Michaux originally published it."--Cover page 4. |
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| Item Description: | Includes poems, prose poems and short, journal-like entries. |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781681372266 1681372266 |