Wings Folded in Cracks: Selected Poems

Where other poets of his generation developed strategies of deconstruction, Jean-Pierre Vallotton invented a brave new mosaic with the parameters left behind by traditionalism, modernism and post-modernism. If William Wordsworth, Oscar Wilde, T S Eliot are considered decadent, then so is Jean-Pierre Vallotton a decadent; however, the sort of decadent that will be viewed as being great in years to come: "The space between us is a path of magnificence, and here the faintest of our footsteps draws forth a flower". His neo-baroque poetry stands at the crossroads of whatever styles, forms, and contents led to this spot; and it is with the pernicious artefacts found here that Jean-Pierre Vallotton invents the unknown structures that will welcome the birds of paradise of tomorrow.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Pierre Vallotton
• Assisted by: Antonio D'Alfonso (Translation)
• Publisher: Guernica Ed
• Languages: French
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2013
• EAN: 9781550717969
• ISBN: 978-1-55071-796-9
• No. of pages: 203
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 216 g
• Series: Essential Translations
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama