Description
The French poet Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) was modernism's great champion of the book as both a conceptual and material entity: probably his most famous pronouncement is 'everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.' The Book was Mallarme's total artwork, a book to encompass all books. Frequently quoted, sometimes excerpted, but never before translated in its entirety, The Book is a visual poem about its own construction, the scaffolding of a cosmic architecture intended to reveal 'all existing relations between everything.'
Reviews
A new language so we may continue toward new and newer forms of poetry - that is true poetic innovation. -- Marcella Durand * Hyperallergic *
What a feast of Mallarme we are treated to, with really persuasive translations of two major and important texts of this poet, who is without any doubt, quite certainly, the most important carryover from the poetry of the nineteenth century to our present and our future, in poetry and in life. -- Mary Ann Caws * Brooklyn Rail *
Book Information
ISBN 9781878972422
Author Stephane Mallarme
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Exact Change,U.S.
Publisher Exact Change,U.S.
Reviews
A new language so we may continue toward new and newer forms of poetry - that is true poetic innovation. -- Marcella Durand * Hyperallergic *
What a feast of Mallarme we are treated to, with really persuasive translations of two major and important texts of this poet, who is without any doubt, quite certainly, the most important carryover from the poetry of the nineteenth century to our present and our future, in poetry and in life. -- Mary Ann Caws * Brooklyn Rail *
Book Information
ISBN 9781878972422
Author Stephane Mallarme
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Exact Change,U.S.
Publisher Exact Change,U.S.
