Tempest of Stars by Jean Cocteau
Film-maker, novelist, artist, playwright, entrepreneur, Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) regarded himself above all as a poet. And it was as a poet that he began his career, publishing "Le Cap de Bonne-Esperance" in 1919, and it was in this vocation that he published "Le Requiem" in 1962, shortly before his death.
Cocteau is better known in America as filmmaker and playwright than poetThis generous collection featuring both French originals and their English translation should help rectify that. Translator Reed, himself a poet of note, has permitted himself the latitude to betray literary meaning when necessary to capture the elusive strains of Cocteau's experimentation. Reed is particularly adept at transmitting the clashing images...that are Cocteau's specially. Cocteau is rich and wild, driving metaphors like rangy horses. Nicely counter-pointing his texts in this edition are evocative drawings by David Austen. -- Booklist.
Jeremy Reed is widely acknowledged as the most imaginatively gifted British poet of his generation, praised by Seamus Heaney for his 'rich and careful writing' and by David Lodge for his 'remarkable lyric gift'. His Selected Poems were published by Penguin in 1987 and were followed in 1990 by Nineties (Cape) and Dicing for Pearls (Enitharmon Press). He has also published four novels, including Isidore, a fictional life of Lautreamont, and several literary studies, among them Madness - the Price of Poetry, which was described by Peter Ackroyd in The Times as 'enthusiastic, entertaining and often illuminating'. As a translator he has produced outstanding versions of the Hymns to the Night by Novalis (Enitharmon Press) and of the poetry of Montale (Bloodaxe 1991), which won the Poetry Society's Translation Award.David Austen studied at the Royal College of Art from 1982 to 1985. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions and has had one-man shows in London, Bristol, Manchester and Los Angeles. He is represented by Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781870612128 |
| ISBN 10 | 1870612124 |
| Title | Tempest of Stars |
| Author | Jean Cocteau |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Enitharmon Press |
| Year published | 1997-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 150 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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