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Title: Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes by Rosmarie Waldrop, Richard Stamelman ISBN: 0-8195-6580-6 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A "must-read" combination of memoir and literary criticism
Comment: Lavish Absence: Recalling And Rereading Edmond Jabes is a blend of Rosmarie Waldrop's thoughtful and personal biography (combined with her personal meditations) of Edmond Jabes (1912-1991), a French poet and writer of cherished and insightful works. Written by his close friend and primary English translator Rosmarie Waldrop, Lavish Absence recalls Jabes' life and work with special consideration for Jabes' themes of exile and nomadism. Lavish Absence is a "must-read" combination of memoir and literary criticism which is especially recommended for poetry enthusiasts who enjoy Edmond Jabes' writings.
Rating: 5
Summary: awash in a gift
Comment: Rosmarie Waldrop presents small, various accounts of the relationship she has had with the French poet Edmond Jabes. The relationship is manifold for her as she recounts, first as a poet and reader, then as a translator and friend to Jabes. These sparks of recollection accumulate unpredictably and gently.
Waldrop generously shares her intelligent courses of reading Jabes, her nearly vertiginous trials, translating the rhythms and puns of his books, as well as some amusing events and anecdotes about the life of the poet. Of course, Jabes is not present on account of such a mixture of sharings, but Waldrop's book enriches one's idea of Jabes. It is most difficult to find an assemblage as rich about Jabes' life and work in English, let alone one as touching and pleasant. I read this book in an evening and found myself popping all about, in the notes seeking the French versions of the poetry translated in the text, the bibliography out back, and front again to review a joke or echo of sentence at hand.
In addition to the pleasure one might have reading about the Jabeses and their milieu, this book may be welcomed for its candid discussion of translation, its goals and methods. Some of Waldrop's solutions to vexing passages are ingenious and exciting.
There are very few books of this nature. Illuminating translator's tales are rare and rarer still are the anecdotal sharings of the translator's interactions and impressions of her source. I recommend this book highly to those with an interest in Edmond Jabes, poetry after WWII, translation or writers in exile. It also allows part of the author's own life to develop in front of the poetry on view.
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Title: The Book of Questions: The Book of Questions/the Book of Yukel/Return to the Book/3 Books in 1 (The Book of Questions , Vol 1) by Edmond Jabes, Rosemarie Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop ISBN: 0819562475 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works by Jenny Penberthy ISBN: 0520224337 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Collected Poems: Edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter; Introduction by Frank Bidart by Robert Lowell, Frank Bidart, David Gewanter, Desales Harrison ISBN: 0374126178 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Book of Shares (Religion and Postmodernism) by Edmond Jabes, Mark C. Taylor, Rosemarie Waldrop ISBN: 0226388867 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1989 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Book of Margins (Religion and Postmodernism) by Edmond Jabes, Rosmarie Waldrop ISBN: 0226388891 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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