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PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-101564780694
ISBN-139781564780690
eBay Product ID (ePID)1043367
Product Key Features
Book TitlePlurality of Worlds of Lewis
Number of Pages109 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1995
TopicEuropean / General, General
GenrePoetry
AuthorJacques Roubaud
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight5.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-007327
Reviews"Ghostly presences inhabit these spaces that these lyric poems and fluid fictions construct. Rosmarie Waldrop's translation brings to the surface the obsessive, repetitive thought patterns that characterize grief.... Roubaud... asks language to propose equivalencies and transformations." -- Susan Smith Nash, Texture #6, "Writing as a poet-philosopher, Roubaud... casts a delicate net of language to apprehend ideas that most compel him..." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Edition20
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal841/.914
SynopsisThis collection of prose and poetry elaborates on themes explored in Roubaud s Some Thing Black, which the Times Literary Supplement called a harrowing book . . . an elegy for our time. As in the earlier collection, Roubaud grapples with the grief he continues to feel at the untimely death of his young wife. In parts 1 and 2, he uses the possible existence of many worlds as a means by which to transcend the trauma of this unbearable loss. (David Lewis s book On the Plurality of Worlds provided the inspiration and title for Roubaud s book.) These poems also rage against the limitations of poetry itself, which can only clarify the exactness of his grief, not assuage it. In part 3, Roubaud uses a mathematically precise form to explore the idea of form. As a meditation on both grief and on poetry, The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis is a memorable achievement.", This collection of prose and poetry elaborates on themes explored in Roubaud's Some Thing Black, which the Times Literary Supplement called "a harrowing book . . . an elegy for our time." As in the earlier collection, Roubaud grapples with the grief he continues to feel at the untimely death of his young wife. In parts 1 and 2, he uses the possible existence of many worlds as a means by which to transcend the trauma of this unbearable loss. (David Lewis's book On the Plurality of Worlds provided the inspiration and title for Roubaud's book.) These poems also rage against the limitations of poetry itself, which can only clarify the exactness of his grief, not assuage it. In part 3, Roubaud uses a mathematically precise form to explore the idea of form. As a meditation on both grief and on poetry, The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis is a memorable achievement., This collection of prose and poetry elaborates on themes explored in Roubaud's Some Thing Black, which the Times Literary Supplement called a harrowing book . . . an elegy for our time." As in the earlier collection, Roubaud grapples with the grief he continues to feel at the untimely death of his young wife. In parts 1 and 2, he uses the possible existence of many worlds as a means by which to transcend the trauma of this unbearable loss. (David Lewis's book On the Plurality of Worlds provided the inspiration and title for Roubaud's book.) These poems also rage against the limitations of poetry itself, which can only clarify the exactness of his grief, not assuage it. In part 3, Roubaud uses a mathematically precise form to explore the idea of form. As a meditation on both grief and on poetry, The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis is a memorable achievement."
LC Classification NumberPQ2678.O77P5813 1995
