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The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart: One Hundred Fifty Poems (1991-1998) (French Literature)
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$16.95
Publication Date: July 1st, 2006
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN:
9781564783837
Pages:
266
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Description
Composed of 150 poems, with a title taken from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, and partly a response to the poetry of Raymond Queneau, this collection explores Jacques Roubaud's many poetic modes. He skips from the strict form of the sonnet to the freedom of prose poetry without abandoning the melancholy playfulness that has defined his lengthy writing career. A selection of Roubaud's best recent work, The Form of a City describes not only Paris, but also its people, its writers (and those of the Oulipo in particular), its monumental past, and its unsteady response to change.
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