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William Louis-Dreyfus Letters Written and Not Sent (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Letters Written and Not Sent
- Publication Name
- Letters Written and Not Sent
- Title
- Letters Written and Not Sent
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781597098694
- ISBN
- 9781597098694
- Publisher
- Red Hen Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 15/08/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.2in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 3.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Topic
- Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Subjects & Themes / Nature, Subjects & Themes / Family
- Number of Pages
- 200 Pages
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Letters Written and Not Sent is the lifetime work of poet William Louis-Dreyfus, written over decades, culminating a passion for poetry, art and social justice. He passed away just days after the book was completed. Like paperweights, his lyrics are both small and hefty. His subjects range from race relations to trees, from secrets to parenthood, from ideas of god to kissing, from sons and mothers to fate, and of course, to poetry itself. Never afraid of the big questions of why human beings are alive, and what hope and justice are for, Louis-Dreyfus could take decades to finish a poem. A perfectionist, a thinker, and always inspired by visual art, he fought with himself over how to say what he wanted to say best. Like the French-Uruguayan businessman poet Jules Supervielle, whom Louis-Dreyfus translated, he felt the tug of the financial world against the pull of the lyricism of poetry, and the division marked his life and sparked ideas for his finest poems. As the heart condition that seized him made it absolutely imperative, finishing Letters Written and Not Sent literally became a life-or-death matter. This is the book that he wished to send into the world.
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Publisher
Red Hen Press
ISBN-10
1597098698
ISBN-13
9781597098694
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038496976
Product Key Features
Book Title
Letters Written and Not Sent
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Subjects & Themes / Nature, Subjects & Themes / Family
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
3.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3612.O794a6 2019
Reviews
The poems of William Louis-Dreyfus testify to an inner life of great richness, but one that freely slipped across the border of the self into the world beyond. He wrote well in poems about the natural world, his relationships with past and present, his desire for justice, and his empathy for those to whom it was denied. This is a fine collection of his work, and it is good to have it at last. --Charles Martin, What a graceful and beautifully crafted book by a compassionate poet who reminds us of 'how much consolation / is needed and can't be found.' William Louis-Dreyfus's meditations on the warping passage of time that 'clothes everything in losing' are especially poignant here. 'Where, when it comes, will the lightning strike?' he eloquently muses, while still exhorting us, in his wake, to 'Be subject to the dance. / Be seasonably enthralled.' --Emily Fragos, "What a graceful and beautifully crafted book by a compassionate poet who reminds us of 'how much consolation / is needed and can't be found.' William Louis-Dreyfus's meditations on the warping passage of time that 'clothes everything in losing' are especially poignant here. 'Where, when it comes, will the lightning strike?' he eloquently muses, while still exhorting us, in his wake, to 'Be subject to the dance. / Be seasonably enthralled.'" --Emily Fragos, How eerie that William Louis-Dreyfus's poems meditated on death, unswervingly, for years before his actual death in 2016. There's no self-pity in these taut meditations, but a stoicism reflected in the spare, chiseled lines. He was also haunted by secrets, by messages not delivered, by knowledge lost. In 'What Einstein Said,' the dying physicist utters four final words, but in German, and overheard only by a nurse who couldn't understand him. In 'Suppose,' the baffled poet turns 'to what poems don't quite tell.' And 'Calling Out' ends by hearing the bleating of ewes whose lambs have been selected for slaughter, calling 'for three full days; and then the calling ends.' There's rock-bottom integrity, a dignified modesty, and a quizzical, persistent quest for meaning in this collection. It's a final bequest to the living from an intensely generous man. --Rosanna Warren, "How eerie that William Louis-Dreyfus's poems meditated on death, unswervingly, for years before his actual death in 2016. There's no self-pity in these taut meditations, but a stoicism reflected in the spare, chiseled lines. He was also haunted by secrets, by messages not delivered, by knowledge lost. In 'What Einstein Said,' the dying physicist utters four final words, but in German, and overheard only by a nurse who couldn't understand him. In 'Suppose,' the baffled poet turns 'to what poems don't quite tell.' And 'Calling Out' ends by hearing the bleating of ewes whose lambs have been selected for slaughter, calling 'for three full days; and then the calling ends.' "There's rock-bottom integrity, a dignified modesty, and a quizzical, persistent quest for meaning in this collection. It's a final bequest to the living from an intensely generous man." --Rosanna Warren, "The poems of William Louis-Dreyfus testify to an inner life of great richness, but one that freely slipped across the border of the self into the world beyond. He wrote well in poems about the natural world, his relationships with past and present, his desire for justice, and his empathy for those to whom it was denied. This is a fine collection of his work, and it is good to have it at last." --Charles Martin, "The poems of William Louis-Dreyfus testify to an inner life of great richness, but one that freely slipped across the border of the self into the world beyond. He wrote well in poems about the natural world, his relationships with past and present, his desire for justice, and his empathy for those to whom it was denied. This is a fine collection of his work, and it is good to have it at last." --Charles Martin "How eerie that William Louis-Dreyfus's poems meditated on death, unswervingly, for years before his actual death in 2016. There's no self-pity in these taut meditations, but a stoicism reflected in the spare, chiseled lines. He was also haunted by secrets, by messages not delivered, by knowledge lost. In 'What Einstein Said,' the dying physicist utters four final words, but in German, and overheard only by a nurse who couldn't understand him. In 'Suppose,' the baffled poet turns 'to what poems don't quite tell.' And 'Calling Out' ends by hearing the bleating of ewes whose lambs have been selected for slaughter, calling 'for three full days; and then the calling ends.' There's rock-bottom integrity, a dignified modesty, and a quizzical, persistent quest for meaning in this collection. It's a final bequest to the living from an intensely generous man." --Rosanna Warren "What a graceful and beautifully crafted book by a compassionate poet who reminds us of 'how much consolation / is needed and can't be found.' William Louis-Dreyfus's meditations on the warping passage of time that 'clothes everything in losing' are especially poignant here. 'Where, when it comes, will the lightning strike?' he eloquently muses, while still exhorting us, in his wake, to 'Be subject to the dance. / Be seasonably enthralled.'" --Emily Fragos
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2018-056115
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Dewey Edition
23
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