Selected Poems of Max Jacob - Softcover

Max Jacob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 093244086X ISBN 13: 9780932440860

Publisher: Oberlin College Press, 1999

Synopsis

Even though he was an important founder of modernism, companion to Picasso, Modigliani, Apollinaire, and the early Surrealists, Max Jacob has remained a somewhat neglected and little-known figure. Now this delightful and utterly original poet has been given a detailed and careful presentation in English.

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About the Author

Pablo Picasso called Max Jacob (1876-1944) France's greatest poet; he was also a novelist, a painter, an art critic, a biographer, and a mystic. A central figure in the Parisian artistic and literary scene in the first two decades of the twentieth century, he helped initiate many of the striking developments in form and style we now know as Modernism.

From the Back Cover

The Cubist reconsideration of time and space that we are now familiar with in the paintings of Braque and Picasso had its most important literary equivalent in the poems of Max Jacob, who was closely associated with them in Paris in the early part of the twentieth century.

Jacob's poems, which use prose as a powerful instrument of investigation into states of ecstasy and disillusion, are now here represented, in thoughtful renderings by William Kulik, in a selection that makes evident Jacob's importance and uniqueness for English-speaking readers. The selection ranges from Jacob's THE DICE CUP (1903-10, published 1916), his formative masterpiece, to the late poems written shortly before he died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1944.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oberlin College Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 093244086X
• ISBN 13: 9780932440860
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 136