Poet by Default

By Tristan Corbière

Poetry. Translated from the French by Noelle Kocot. "...I have the clearness of the moon, / And for friends I have amorous vagabonds with no money." A limited-edition, hand-sewn volume of poet Noelle Kocot's translations of some of the poems of Tristan Corbi re (1845-1875), the young French poet whose only book, Les Amours jaunes, was largely ignored until the Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine wrote about him a decade after his untimely death. Marked by his use of irony and a distinctive local idiom, Tristan Corbi re's work is a cornerstone of modern French poetry, and has been influential to English and American modernists such as Pound and Eliot.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933517603
• ISBN13: 9781933517605
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Wave Books
• Length: 22 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.