NAISSANCES/BIRTHS

The Uruguayan-Born Twentieth-Century French Poet Jules Supervielle Admired By Rilke T. S. Eliot Paul Celan And Richard Howard Here Appears For The First Time In A Bilingual French-English Edition Of An Entire Work-In A Project Authorized And Encouraged By Gallimard And The Supervielle Family. Naissances Provides An Epitome-A Sampling And A Summing Up-Of Much That Is Fascinating In Supervielle: Traditional And Free Verse Poems-Lyric Dramatic And Narrative-Expressing Many Of His Obsessive Themes (Angoisse Gravitations Metamorphoses Births Loss Exile Death).