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Last verses
Jules Laforgue
Translated from French by Donald Revell
Last verses, by Jules Laforgue and translated by Donald Revell from French, brings Uruguayan French-language poetry into English through Laforgue's late lyric restlessness, irony, lunar melancholy, and the feeling of a voice speaking close to its own vanishing point. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem begins making its own weather. I would read it for weariness, wit, moonlight, and that strange modern tone where despair keeps glancing at itself sideways, not as a fixed lesson about a nation, period, or school. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Last verses belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives readers a way into Franco-Uruguayan modernism at its most brittle and self-aware.
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Omnidawn Pub.
- Language
- French
- Country
- Uruguay
- ISBN
- 9781890650544