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The Piano Ship - Blaise Cendrars, Charles Cros, Jules
Supervielle trans Alexis Lykiard -Platform/Green Horse - 1974
"Alexis Lykiard's little pamphlet is booklet No.5 in the
Platform/Green Horse series... All three of these French poets were
born in the late 19th century and it is a mark of the
great breakthrough in style and technique that took place at this
time that these poems - even in translation - seem to be of our own
time. Of Blaise Cendrars Henry Miller wrote: 'He has been the most
rewarding to me of allcontemporary French writers (he died only in
1961): beside him, for example, Ernest Hemingway is a Boy Scout'....
...Whether the translations are a valid expression in English of
their French originals I cannot say, not having access to them but
they read well in English and make at least one reader want to see
more of them." [Jack Garford,
Samphire,
vol. 2 no. 8, winter 1974/5} |