If There Were Anywhere But Desert

by Edmond Jabès

This book is the first bilingual selection from the poetic works of Edmund Jabes, long acknowledged for the mastery of his work in the unique prose genre invented by him. "Jabes lives in the French language as if it were the Sea," writes Robert Duncan in the afterword, a truth accessible here both in the French originals and Keith Waldrop's extraordinary translations, drawn from Jabes' earliest and most recent poems. "Poetry was Jabes' proving ground,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882680528
• ISBN13: 9780882680521
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"