Wings Folded in Cracks: Selected Poems

Wings Folded in Cracks: Selected Poems

Wings Folded in Cracks: Selected Poems

Wings Folded in Cracks: Selected Poems

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Overview

Where other poets of his generation developed strategies of deconstruction, Jean-Pierre Vallotton invented a brave new mosaic with the parameters left behind by traditionalism, modernism and postmodernism. If William Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot are considered decadent, then so is Jean-Pierre Vallotton a decadent; however, the sort of decadent that will be viewed as being great in years to come: “The space between us is a path of magnificence, and here the faintest of our footsteps draws forth a flower.” His neo-baroque poetry stands at the crossroads of whatever styles, forms, and contents led to this spot; and it is with the pernicious artefacts found here that Jean-Pierre Vallotton invents the unknown structures that will welcome the birds of paradise of tomorrow.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781550717976
Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc
Publication date: 05/05/2013
Series: Essential Translations
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 136
File size: 483 KB

About the Author

Born in 1955 in Geneva, Jean-Pierre Vallotton has won numerous awards in Switzerland, Belgium, and France. He is the author of more than thirty books and his works have been published in fourteen languages. He has translated Ion Caraion, Sylvia Plath, Wolfgang Borchert, and R.L. Stevenson. He has also written and hosted radio programmes on French-language stations. A member of the Pierrette Micheloud Estate, he is the president of the jury responsible for its literary awards.

Table of Contents

Il neige des cendres 8

It is snowing ashes 9

Témoins enfolds 10

Buried Witnesses 11

Suicide à bon marché 12

A dirt-cheap suicide 13

Visage étoiles absentes 14

Face Absent Stars 15

Rappel 16

Another Call 17

Eperdument 18

Frantically 19

Posthume 20

Posthumous 21

La chambre 22

The room 23

Tout cela brûlera 24

All of this will burn 25

Précédemment 26

Previously 27

Esquisse de Gisabel 40

Sketch of Gisabel 41

Images pour Sulamith Wülfing 62

Images for Sulamith Wülfing 63

Lumière d'automne 86

Autumn Light 87

Miroir aux alouettes ou De l'art moderne 88

Mirror for the Skylark or On Modern Art 89

Un chevet de mousse 88

The bed head 89

En cette attente admirable 90

The Admirable Wait 91

Suicides familiers 92

Colloquial Suicides 93

Paulina 1980 94

Paulina 1980 95

Voyageur arrêté 96

The Traveller Stops 97

Couteau tiré 98

Knife pulled out of the light 99

Pour voir s'éteindre 98

In order to see lightning 99

Réveil à Arzier 100

Waking up in Arzier 101

Espère 102

Hope 103

Noir sur blanc 112

Black on White 113

Aux yeux des trépassés 118

On the stare of the deceased 119

Musée privé Rêves partagés 120

Private Museum Shared Dreams 121

Sommeils de givre Sommeils de plomb 130

Frost Sleep Lead Sleep 131

Reliefs d'un automne 134

Autumn Embossments 135

Cinglante averse 144

Rainfall stings 145

A un tremblement près 146

With the quivering 147

En braille 146

Music in braille 147

Six mélodies à l'unisson 148

Six Melodies in Unison 149

Barcelona 150

Barcelona 151

Femmes surréalistes 154

Surrealist Women 155

L'autre rive 160

The Other Shore 161

La joie sous son archet 168

The bow resonates with joy 169

Aux rides pâles de l'hiver 168

On the wrinkles 169

Déclivité tranchante de 1'averse 170

The razor-thin rainfall slices 171

Le miroir s'arrête 170

The mirror comes 171

Les biens de ce monde 172

This World's Fortune 173

L'amour de l'autre 174

Love for the Other 175

Ce que l'on nomme espoir 176

What We Consider Hope 177

Renaître, fardeau 178

To be reborn, burden 179

Insectes 180

Insects 181

La glace fond 182

Ice is melting 183

Suite parisienne 184

Parisian Suite 185

Arrêt sur image 190

Freeze frame 191

Renvenimer la plaie 192

Pouring venom on wounds 193

Le retour l'attente 194

The Return The Waiting 195

After Jean-Pierre Vallotton's Words by Antonio D'Alfonso 199

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