Recumbents (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Softcover

Deguy, Michel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819567485 ISBN 13: 9780819567482

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (2006)
Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work (2006)

Hailed as one of France's most influential living poets, Michel Deguy has remained largely inaccessible to English-language readers. Recumbents is the first English translation of the most critically-acclaimed volume of this poet's work. The word recumbents refers to funereal sculptures (gisants), reclining lovers, and the literal imprint of those and other figures on the page. The collection includes a poem for the dead, "Procession," written by Deguy in the wake of his father's suicide, and poems dedicated to all phases of Eros. These are interwoven with passages on rhetoric or what Deguy calls poetic reason. This bilingual edition also includes a meditation on Deguy's work by deconstructionism's foundational thinker, Jacques Derrida.

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5 1/2 x 8 1/2 trim.

About the Author:

MICHEL DEGUY is Emeritus Professor of French Literature at the Université de Paris VIII (Saint Denis). He has been awarded two of the most important French poetry awards, the Prix Mallarmé and Le Grand Prix National de Poésie. WILSON BALDRIDGE, a widely published translator, is Associate Professor of French at Wichita State University. JACQUES DERRIDA is a celebrated French philosopher and one of the most influential thinkers of the late 20th century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0819567485
• ISBN 13: 9780819567482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268