French Leave

By Cliff Forshaw

French Leave follows RE: VERB in which Cliff Forshaw recreated Rimbaud's terrestrial adventures from the Hooligan Poet and Seer in bohemian Paris, through the years as a tough merchant and gun-runner in Africa, to his death aged thirty-seven in a Marseilles hospital. This new collection plays variations on the themes and forms of French verse from mid-nineteenth century Gautier and G rard de Nerval, through Baudelaire and Rimbaud, to Valery and Apollinaire on the eve of the First World War. Among the well-known figures, Forshaw invents further fin-de-si cle personae that might have existed, and possibly even did.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191576016X
• ISBN13: 9781915760166
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"