A Flea the Size of Paris: The Old French Fatrasies and Fatras (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781733892438)

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A Flea the Size of Paris: The Old French Fatrasies and Fatras

$19.95

A Flea the Size of Paris: The Old French Fatrasies and Fatras

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Blending levity and malaise, carnival and apocalypse, sudden death and swarming vitality, the fatrasies and fatras are a small group of "impossible" poems, written between 1250 and 1330 in Northern France. In the 1920s, these poems caught the interest of André Breton and the other Paris-based Surrealists, who published George Bataille's translations of some of the fatrasies in La Révolution surréaliste no.6. More than any other works of their time, the fatrasies and fatras created a new poetic language, one that captures, as Bettina Full writes, "the fullness, fleeting and mortal, of all human life." Often compared with avant-garde poetry of the twentieth century, these small marvels from the medieval world have never before been translated into English

Author: Ted Byrne
ISBN-10: 1733892435
ISBN-13: 9781733892438
Publisher: Black Widow Press
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2020
Pages: 195
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
By Ted Byrne
By Ted Byrne
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-Ted Byrne is a poet and essayist who lives in Vancouver. He was a member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective for many years. For the past decade he has been an active member the Lacan Salon. He was a Director of The Trade Union Research Bureau, and continues to work part time as a researcher and advocate. His most recent book is Duets, a book constructed from the sonnets of Louise Labé and Guido Cavalcanti (Talonbooks, 2018). Previous books include Aporia (Fissure-Point Blank, 1989), Beautiful Lies (CUE books, 2008), and Sonnets: Louise Labé (Nomados, 2011). He is a frequent contributor to The Capilano Review.

-The interdisciplinary practice of Donato Mancini focuses mainly on poetry, bookworks, text-based visual art and cultural criticism. His books and chapbooks include Snowline (2015), Loitersack (2014), Buffet World (2011), Fact 'N' Value (2011), Hell Passport no.22 (2008), Æthel (2007), 58 Free Coffees (2006), and Ligatures (2005). Ligatures and Æthel were each nominated for the ReLit Poetry Award, and Ligatures received honourable mention in the Alcuin Society book design awards. Mancini's published critical writing includes work on the archive, time, and memory in Anamnesia: Unforgetting (2011), and a discourse analysis of poetry reviews in You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence (2012). He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of British Columbia

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