Yves Di Manno
Autor/a de Un nouveau monde
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 7
- Membres
- 19
- Popularitat
- #609,294
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 7
Postwar and contemporary French poetry seems therefore to be criminally underrated and underappreciated, and if you still believe that after reading "Un nouveau monde", then you're just living in a different paradigm. First of all, because the anthology goes back several years before 1960 in order to cover towering figures such as Gherasim Luca, some of the best experimental poetry ever written is in here. Which also means, unfortunately to some readers, that the selection tends to be biased towards the experimental poets, the central poetic scene, the poets of publishing houses such as especially Gallimard itself.
However, a remarkable feature for an anthology assembled by two poets, this anthology covers pretty diverse ground and, without sacrificing coherence, spotlights sets of more independent voices, and not just authors who are associated with one group or movement. Perhaps suspiciously so, the poetic landscape of this huge timeframe is very neatly organized, which is a blessing for a reader like me who was looking forward to understand what has been truly going on in France since the '70s, the last time when Romanians had a proper anthology of contemporary French poetry.
Judging from some reviews glimpsed on French poetry sites, I might be offended too by some shortcomings of this anthology, but since I'm not an insider of French poetry, I am more than content for now with this.… (més)