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The form of a city changes faster, alas, than the human heart : one hundred fifty poems (1991-1998) / Jacques Roubaud ; translation by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop.
- Title
- The form of a city changes faster, alas, than the human heart : one hundred fifty poems (1991-1998) / Jacques Roubaud ; translation by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop.
- Author
- Roubaud, Jacques
- Publication
- Normal : Dalkey Archive Press, 2006.
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- Description
- x, 247 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Composed of 150 poems, with a title taken from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, and partly a response to the poetry of Raymond Queneau, this collection explores Jacques Roubaud's many poetic modes. He skips from the strict form of the sonnet to the freedom of prose poetry without abandoning the melancholy playfulness that has defined his lengthy writing career. A selection of Roubaud's best recent work, The Form of a City describes not only Paris, but also its people, its writers (and those of the Oulipo in particular), its monumental past, and its unsteady response to change."--Publisher's website.
- Uniform Title
- Forme d'une ville change plus vite, hélas, que le cœur des humains. English
- Alternative Title
- Forme d'une ville change plus vite, hélas, que le cœur des humains.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poetry
- Note
- Translated from the French.
- Contents
- Paris -- Commentary on the preceding poem -- It's taken -- Rue Volta -- We can no longer call on saint cloud -- Boulevard de Clichy -- Stamp-collecting -- Metro -- Arrondissements -- Queneau in November -- The Gioconda -- Sacre-Coeur! -- Informal intimate ode to the copy of the standard meter in the Rue de Vaugirard -- Rue Duguay-Trouin -- A hotel in Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette -- The Champs-Elysees roundabout -- Pont des Arts -- A poem for Claude Roy -- Poem of the Eiffel Tower -- Boulevard Pereire -- Rue Etienne-Jodelle -- The days grow shorter -- The days grow longer -- In spring -- A couple in unison -- Mother and daughter -- Autumn in Rue du Printemps -- Square Louis-XVI -- Our kings.
- ISBN
- 1564783839 (pbk.)
- 9781564783837
- LCCN
- ^^2005056072
- OCLC
- 62762285
- SCSB-12475550
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library