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Homesick for the Earth
Jules Supervielle
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Description for Homesick for the Earth
Paperback. Bilingual French-English edition of poems by Jules Supervielle with English versions by Moniza Alvi. Translator(s): Alvi, Moniza. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190. Selected Poems. 96 pages. Bilingual French-English edition of poems by Jules Supervielle with English versions by Moniza Alvi. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 9. Weight: 190. Translator(s): Alvi, Moniza.
Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was born to French parents in Montevideo, orphaned within a year of his birth, and grew up in Uruguay and France. He spent the Second World War exiled in Uruguay, afflicted by ill health and financial ruin. His poems are dreamlike, often gently fantastical, imbued with an appealing surface clarity. His work stands apart from much 20th-century French poetry, and he has been characterised as a writer of Basque descent who wrote in French but in the Spanish tradition, with a strong affinity for the open spaces of his South American childhood and nostalgia for a cosmic ... Read more
Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was born to French parents in Montevideo, orphaned within a year of his birth, and grew up in Uruguay and France. He spent the Second World War exiled in Uruguay, afflicted by ill health and financial ruin. His poems are dreamlike, often gently fantastical, imbued with an appealing surface clarity. His work stands apart from much 20th-century French poetry, and he has been characterised as a writer of Basque descent who wrote in French but in the Spanish tradition, with a strong affinity for the open spaces of his South American childhood and nostalgia for a cosmic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249205
SKU
V9781852249205
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Ref
99-32
Reviews for Homesick for the Earth
'I have been making versions of Supervielle's poems for several years, strongly drawn to his style of writing, while also finding coincidental parallels with my own life, such as his birth elsewhereA on another continent. My aim has been to retain the spirit of the French poems, and as many of their implications as I can, while making a ... Read more