Poetry. Translation. "A writer of rare quality"--Henri Michaux. Like tiny word searches, these small poems reveal themselves as tightly packed aphorisms, physically manifesting themselves in the world with a wisdom that is somehow simultaneously novel and ancient. Translated from the French by Charles Borkhuis.
Author City: Paris FRA
Franck André Jamme has published twelve books of poems and fragments since 1981, as well as numerous illustrated books. In 2005, he won the Grand Prix de Poésie de la Societé des Gens de Lettres. His work has been praised by Edmond Jabès and René Char and translated by John Ashbery. He is also a specialist and curator of contemporary Indian Tantric, Brut and tribal arts. He lives in Paris and Burgundy.
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