Jacques Dupin (1927-2012) was born in Privas in the Ardèche. Images of the harsh mineral nakedness of his native countryside run through the whole of his work and figure a fundamental existential nakedness. Dupin was an ascetic who liked the bare and the simple. His poetry is sad, wise and relentlessly honest. He speaks in our ear, as if at once close and far off, to tell us what we knew: ‘Neither passion nor possession’. He was a poet and art critic, and a formidable authority on the work of Miró and Giacometti. This edition of his prose poems and lyrics has been selected by Paul Auster from seven collections published between 1958 and 1982, culminating in his Songs of Rescue. It has an introduction by Mary Ann Caws, Professor of French at City University of New York. French-English bilingual edition.
- ISBN13 9781852242343
- Publish Date 22 October 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 May 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Edition Bilingual 'facing page' edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English