Book record
Cinepoems and Others
Benjamin Fondane
Translated from French by Andrew Rubens
In Cinepoems and Others, Benjamin Fondane arrives in English through Mitchell Abidor, Marianne Bailey, E. M. Cioran, Marilyn Hacker, Henry King, Andrew Rubens, Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, Leonard Schwartz's translation from French, with a lyric field shaped by cinema, montage, exile, and philosophical modernism. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the book should not be reduced to a country-language-press summary. I would read it for atmosphere and attention first: what kind of silence it makes, what kind of body it imagines, what kind of world becomes visible when the poem turns its head. The strongest value of this entry is that it gives readers permission to approach difficulty as texture rather than a locked door. Cinepoems and Others belongs in the library as a book of encounter, not simply information.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Language
- French
- Country
- Romania
- ISBN
- 9781590179000