Selected Poems

By Jean-Paul Auxemery

For the first time in English--an expansive collection of the poetry of Jean-Paul Auxem?ry.

For the first time in English--an expansive collection of the poetry of Jean-Paul Auxem?ry, representing over three decades of work inspired by muses ancient and modern. Tarn's careful translations capture Auxem?ry's virtuosic style, paying homage to a poet whose own translation repertoire includes Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Charles Olson.

"This keen-sighted "wanderer of Europe in confusion" taps ancient cultures around the world to trace the warp and woof in the "fabric of reality." Yet Auxem?ry also turns to his immediate American forebears to understand "our human thirst" and the "how and why of trans-/substantiations," tapping Olson's poetic propulsion, Creeley's sinuous syllabic dance, and Pound's reinvention of history "as one might cook a dish." Nathaniel Tarn's energetic translation, sensitive to shadings and nuance of sound and sense, captures both the echoes of Auxem?ry's masters and the poet's own distinctive voice."--Tess Lewis

"What an encounter! Tarn, a poet brought up in his mother's French and who subsequently, as a poet/anthropologist, migrated through numerous cultures and literary milieux to earn his place as one of the last living elders of American modernist poetry, here meets Auxem?ry, a younger French-born poet whose global travels and mastery of divers languages have also taken him far from his native tongue in order, like H?lderlin or Olson, to rediscover a transfigured sense of the local. Both Tarn and Auxem?ry, having undergone what Antoine Berman calls L'?preuve de ?tranger--that is the trial of the foreign--here greet each other from amid their mutual histories of translation, learning to speak a common tongue."--Richard Sieburth

"This generous Selected Poems displays the disparities with such postwar poets from the preceding generation, given the formal expansiveness, multi-layeredness, exoticness, and narrative impetus in Auxem?ry's oeuvre."--John Taylor, The Fortnightly Review

Poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999261398
• ISBN13: 9780999261392
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: World Poetry Books
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher