The Clarity of Voices: Selected Poems 1974-1981

Philippe Haeck and Antonio D'Alfonso (Translator)

Guernica Editions, Spring 1985

117 pages

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9780919349568

ISBN10: 0919349560

English

Translated from the French

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The quest for the named word leads Philippe Haeck to adopt a transparency of style rare among the poets of his generation. Poetry rises from modesty and is the expression of the spirit of a people and the individual's imagination. It is a political and literary imaginaire.

Life, smooth. Christ assassinated. Collisions, disgust, the city, the morning cannot soothe our pain.

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