The Selected Poems of Max Jacob

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Pub. Date: 1999-12-01
Publisher(s): Oberlin College Pr
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Summary

"These brilliant poems, these multifaceted diamonds, reflect back upon us even now as valuable informants on contemporary poetic style and as sheer, stand-alone genius. Kulik's translations are topnotch" -- Rain Taxi

Table of Contents

Introduction 11(16)
Foreword to The Dice Cup/ Le cornet a des 27(1)
1914
28(1)
1914
29(1)
War
30(1)
Memoirs of a Spy
31(1)
Searching for the Traitor
32(1)
The Key
33(1)
1889-1916
34(1)
Capital. Place-Setting
35(1)
The Feminist Question
36(1)
La Rue Ravignan
37(1)
Moon Poem
38(1)
Frontispiece
39(1)
Poem
40(1)
In the Background
41(1)
In Hill Country
42(1)
The Novel
43(1)
Literature and Poetry
44(1)
Literary Standards
45(1)
A Bit of Art Criticism
46(1)
My Life
47(1)
Biographical
48(1)
Father Unknown
49(1)
Life of the Party
50(1)
The Concarneau Regatta
51(1)
Let's Bring Back the Old Themes
52(1)
Sir Elizabeth (Pronounced Soeur)
53(1)
Errors of Mercy
54(1)
The Two Elite Audiences
55(1)
Poem
56(1)
from The Cock and the Pearl
57(4)
Allusion to a Circus Act
61(1)
Sad Last Appeal to the Phantoms Inspirations from the Past
62(1)
The Tough Guy's Lament
63(1)
Leon! Leon!
64(1)
Poem
65(2)
Absurd Metamorphosis
67(1)
A View in Perspective
68(1)
Playing the Horn
69(1)
To Mr. Modigliani to Prove I'm a Poet
70(2)
Watered Earth
72(1)
Festival
73(1)
Malachites
74(1)
Other Characters at the Masked Ball
75(1)
Other Characters at the Masked Ball: The Blind Woman
76(1)
Menage of Godless Artists
77(1)
Glass of Blood
78(2)
Litanies for the Holy Virgin
80(2)
Warning!
82(1)
Demons as I Rise
83(1)
Hell Has Gradations
84(1)
Achilles' Wheel
85(1)
First Symposium
86(1)
Second Symposium
87(1)
Third Symposium
88(1)
On Death
89(1)
Shore
90(1)
Seascape at Roscoff
91(1)
Jean Jacques
92(1)
The Best Girl
93(1)
Travels: Antibes and the Antibes Road
94(2)
Sunday in Marseilles: Prose Impressions
96(2)
Ballad of the Night Visitor
98(2)
The Balcony of Romeo and Juliet
100(1)
Conservatories
101(1)
Burial in Quimper
102(2)
Our Earthly Virtues are Castles in the Air
104(1)
In Paradise
105(1)
``In the age of enchantment...''
106(1)
Christian Families
107(1)
If Guillaume's Death Had Been Christian
108(1)
``At the outskirts of town...''
109(1)
Infernal Visions
110(1)
The Pilgrims at Emmaeus
111(1)
Write Your Memoirs
112(1)
Novel 1943
113(1)
Magic Confessions
114(2)
The Seasons
116(2)
``Max Is a Lunatic'' (Everyone)
118(3)
Loving Thy Neighbor
121(1)
The Yellow Star Again
122(1)
Death
123(1)
Ballad of the Perpetual Miracle
124(1)
The Restless Soul Remarkes Heaven
125(1)
Prophetic Dreams
126(1)
Artless Lines
127(2)
Reconstruction
129(1)
Acknowledgments 130

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