Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters write by Rosanna Warren. This book was released on 2020-10-20. Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive and moving biography of Max Jacob, a brilliant cubist poet who lived at the margins of fame. Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris, Jewish homosexual poet Max Jacob was Pablo Picasso’s initiator into French culture, Guillaume Apollinaire’s guide out of the haze of symbolism, and Jean Cocteau’s loyal friend. As Picasso reinvented painting, Jacob helped to reinvent poetry with compressed, hard-edged prose poems and synapse-skipping verse lyrics, the product of a complex amalgamation of Jewish, Breton, Parisian, and Roman Catholic influences. In Max Jacob, the poet’s life plays out against the vivid backdrop of bohemian Paris from the turn of the twentieth century through the divisions of World War II. Acclaimed poet Rosanna Warren transports us to Picasso’s ramshackle studio in Montmartre, where Cubism was born; introduces the artists gathered at a seedy bar on the left bank, where Max would often hold court; and offers a front-row seat to the artistic squabbles that shaped the Modernist movement. Jacob’s complex understanding of faith, art, and sexuality animates this sweeping work. In 1909, he saw a vision of Christ in his shabby room in Montmartre, and in 1915 he converted formally from Judaism to Catholicism—with Picasso as his godfather. In his later years, Jacob split his time between Paris and the monastery of Benoît-sur-Loire. In February 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Drancy, where he would die a few days later. More than thirty years in the making, this landmark biography offers a compelling, tragic portrait of Jacob as a man and as an artist alongside a rich study of his groundbreaking poetry—in Warren’s own stunning translations. Max Jacob is a nuanced, deeply researched, and essential contribution to Modernist scholarship.
The Selected Poems of Max Jacob
The Selected Poems of Max Jacob - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Selected Poems of Max Jacob write by Max Jacob. This book was released on 1999. The Selected Poems of Max Jacob available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Jacob's poems, which use prose as a powerful instrument of investigation into states of ecstasy and disillusion, are now here represented, in thoughtful renderings by William Kulik, in a selection that makes evident Jacob's importance and uniqueness for English-speaking readers."--BOOK JACKET.
Ghost in a Red Hat
Ghost in a Red Hat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghost in a Red Hat write by Rosanna Warren. This book was released on 2011. Ghost in a Red Hat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new collection from the writer who has been called "an incomparable poet in her generation" (John Hollander). --
Fables of the Self
Fables of the Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fables of the Self write by Rosanna Warren. This book was released on 2008. Fables of the Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fables of the Self traces ideas of imagined selfhood through the lyric poetry of classical Greece and Rome, the modernist poetry of France, and modern and contemporary English and American lyrics. Rosanna Warren's work emerges from the tradition of British and American poet-critics such as William Empson, Donald Davie, and Randall Jarrell. Her readings of Sappho, Virgil, Baudelaire, Melville, Rimbaud, Mark Strand, and Louise Glück, among others, combine Helen Vendler's passionate attention to detail and something of Harold Bloom's panoramic view. Warren opposes both the literalizing, autobiographical approach to self in so-called confessional poetry and the other extreme of avant-garde erasures of self. Framing her critical studies between a memoir of childhood and a concluding journal entry, Warren has composed an occult autobiography, showing the imagination as a transfiguring and potentially moral force.
The Dice Cup
The Dice Cup - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dice Cup write by Max Jacob. This book was released on 2000. The Dice Cup available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
