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 Mallarmé 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

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.'
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Product details

ISBN
9781878972422
Published
2018-11-08
Publisher
Exact Change,U.S.; Exact Change,U.S.
Height
203 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
240