Jacques Prévert’s To Paint the Portrait of a Bird First paint a cage With an open door Then paint Something pretty Something simple Something beautiful Something useful For the bird Then place the canvas against a tree In a garden… Read More ›
French poetry criticism
Analysis of Jacques Dupin’s Hooks of the Idyll
Published first in 1967 in Jacques Dupin’s poetry volume Proximité du murmure (The Encroaching Murmur), Agrafes de l’idylle is constituted of slow, breathless, fragmentary sentences. Its title in the original French sounds a radical negation of writing: a cognate of… Read More ›