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Synopsis
The formidable French poet and publisher Pierre Seghers (1906-1987) published subversively throughout the Nazi Occupation, narrowly escaping arrest for his Resistance work on several occasions, before eventually playing a part in the liberation of Paris.
His writing is itself resistance, resistance to the threat - and the temptation - of silence, immobility and resignation. Full of questions which paradoxically affirm the fragility and toughness of the human spirit (which is equally capable of creation and destruction, heroism and evil) his is a poetry of movement and change, of light brought into labyrinthine dark places.
Nowhere are these qualities more evident than in this masterful suite of poems, Piranesi, inspired by the nightmare prison landscape of the eighteenth-century Italian engraver's Carceri series. Marked deeply by Seghers' own wartime experiences and the subsequent discoveries of the Nazi concentration camps, the poems mirror the engravings in both content and expression, with their shifting perspectives and mysterious emblems. As cryptic as the Carceri, the suite is both a universal meditation on human genius, and a private, coded love poem, written for the woman Seghers feared he might never be able to marry.
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This haunting poetic sequence has the kind of hallucinatory power found in the artworks that inspired it. The eighteenth-century Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi created a series of "imaginary prisons," Carceri d'invenzione, full of twisting catwalks and looming vaults. Seghers (1906-87), a French poet little known in the English-reading world, meditated on the various imprisonments of human life. Informed as much by Segher's experience of thwarted love as by his life as a French Resistance worker, the poems are dreamlike, both compactly solid and utterly permeable. The translations by Ian Higgins are brilliant, clear, and inventive. An unusual and satisfying book. Pat Monaghan
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Piranesi. (Poems)
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Forest Books., London & Boston., 1994
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 75 pages inc bibliography. with illustrations of the art engraver who's name makes the title. Small octavo, with semi-stiff card covers. Light wear and the small neat name of "John J Gibson" on the endpaper. Poems in both French and English. 20 x 13 cm. *The poet who died in 1987 published his poetry subversively throughout the German occupation. and narrowly escaped whilst working in the Resistance. Postage will be less on this item we reduce the set fees when taking the order. Seller Inventory # 9427
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