Selected Poems Jacques Dupin

In this volume Paul Auster has selected prose poems and lyrics from five volumes of Dupin's poetry published over a quarter-century. Sharing affinities and landscapes with Reverdy Char and Ponge Dupin has developed nevertheless a poetry so distinctive and innovative to the American ear and eye that it could especially with this selection tincture the reading and writing of poetry in the United States. Eschewing theory he creates speculations that enact the self's effacement while sustaining the human in brilliant imagery and shadowy narrative. In her introduction to these poems Mary Ann Caws writes Nothing is permitted a reach higher than the human. The very precariousness of living informs this deeply moving poetics quiet and always at risk.