Featuring 150 poems, this strong collection explores Roubaud's many poetic modes. Comprised of 150 poems, with a title taken from Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal", Jacques Roubaud skips from the strict form of the sonnet to the freedom of prose poetry without abandoning the melancholy playfulness that has defined his lengthy writing career. A selection of 10 previously untranslated work, "The Shape of a City" contains a wide variety of forms and tones that work together to describe not only Paris, but also its people, its writers (and those of Oulipo in particular), its monumental past, and its unsteady response to change.
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Jacques Roubaud, born in 1932, has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Paris X Nanterre. He is one of the most accomplished members of the Oulipo, the workshop for experimental literature founded by Raymond Queneau and Francois Le Lionnais. He is the author of numerous books of prose, theatre and poetry.
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A collection written as an homage and response to the best-known poets of France
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The Form Of A City Changes Faster, Alas, Than The Human Heart is a collection written as an homage and response to the best-known poets of France, including Charles Baudelaire and Raymond Queneau, is the latest work by author Jacques Roubaud. The free verse varies widely in structure from poem to poem, and all the works offer a keenly whetted slice of insight into the dynamic history and culture of France. XVth Arrondissement: no doubt in possession / of a smattering of Latin / an old man in Rue de la / Croix-Nivert smirks / before a store window / of lingerie feminine / "IN FINE"
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