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This title in other formats:Hotel Lautreamontby John Ashberry
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Critics, scholars, students, and other readers of contemporary poetry have long appreciated Ashbery's uncanny mastery of the cadence and lyricism of colloquial speech, but they have been less sensitive to the equally important influences in his work of such "outsider" French poets as Arthur Rimbaud, Raymond Roussel, and Isidore Ducasse (a/k/a Count de Lautreamont). These sometimes overlooked presences are wonderfully alive in this collection of lyric poems, which first appeared in 1992. Now back in print, "Hotel Lautreamont underscores Ashbery's ability to be both tragic and playful, dense and volatile, passionate and impersonal. As David Herd observed in "New Statesman and Society, this is "a poetry fully and startlingly engaged with the way things happen." Synopsis:Le Comte de Lautreamont was a pseudonymous nineteenth-century poet remembered for his epic prose poem Songs of Maldoror. Little is know about him, save his real name (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) and that he spent his brief adult life in various hotels in Paris, checking out of his transient existence in 1870 at the age of twenty-four. Readers of John Ashbery will find the continuation of his spirit, at once tragic and playful, dense and volatile, passionate and impersonal, in this extraordinary collection of lyric poems. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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