It was as a poet that Samuel Beckett launched himself in the little
reviews of 1930s Paris, and as a poet that he ended his career. This
new selection, from _Whoroscope_ (1930) to 'what is the word' (1988),
describes a lifetime's arc of writing. It was as a poet moreover that
Beckett made his first breakthrough into writing in French, and the
_Selected Poems_ represents work in both languages, including the
sequence of brief but highly crafted _mirlitonnades_, which did so
much to usher in the style of his late prose, and come as close as
anything he wrote to honouring the ambition to 'bore one hole after
another in language, until what lurks behind it - be it something or
nothing - begins to seep through.' Also included are several of
Beckett's translations from contemporaries - Apollinaire, Eluard,
Michaux, Montale - in versions which count among his own poetic
achievements.
Edited by David Wheatley
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ISBN
9780571261963
Publisert
2015
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Faber & Faber
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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