
Treading Lightly
Selected Poems 1961-1975
Jacques Reda(Author)
Anvil Press Poetry
Published on 31. May 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-85646-380-8 (ISBN)
Description
The first English selection of Jacques Reda's poems draws on his earliest major collections, widely regarded as among his finest: 'Amen', awarded the Priz Max Jacob, 1968; 'Recitatif', 1970; and 'La Tourne', 1975. These were a formative influence on the 'new lyricism' that was to change the direction of French poetry in the 1980s. With an eye for detail and drama, his poems roam from day-to-day Paris to other times and places, striking a wry, pensive note that is at once personal and universal. They will appeal to readers who share Reda's belief that poetry lives through its rhythm, or 'better still, le swing' (he is a respected jazz critic). The music is admirably captured in Jennie Feldman's translations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85646-380-8 (9780856463808)
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Person
Jacques Reda, born in 1929, was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix in 1993 for a lifetime's work. In 1978 he became a member of Gallimard's reading panel; he was editor of the `Nouvelle Revue Francaise' from 1987 to 1995. His prose work `The Ruins of Paris' appeared in translation by Mark Treharne in 1996. He received the Bourse Goncourt de la Poesie in 1999.Jennie Feldman studied French at Oxford. Her first collection of poems `The Lost Notebook' is also published by Anvil. She lives in Haifa, Israel.