{"product_id":"wood-asleep","title":"Wood Asleep","description":"\u003cp\u003eGérard Macé's work challenges the barriers between poetry and the essay. This play between and within genres is essential to his writing – which has been called \u003cem\u003eessai merveilleux\u003c\/em\u003e – and derives from a questioning of language in its broadest sense. He is equally interested in the seductive musicality of words and in the remembered gestures which traced the hieroglyphs of Egypt and the calligraphic writing of the Far East. His fascination with dictionaries, grammars and glossaries leads him off on journeys in which the real and the imaginary are fused, but without being confused. He slips between words like a marvelling child constantly hoping that one day the world might be read like an open book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition brings together three series of prose poems, \u003cem\u003eLe Jardin des langues\u003c\/em\u003e (1974), \u003cem\u003eLe balcon de Babel\u003c\/em\u003e (1977) and \u003cem\u003eBois dormant\u003c\/em\u003e (1983). Other books by Macé have as their subject literary figures such as Rimbaud, Corbière, Nerval and Champollion, while \u003cem\u003eRome et le firmament\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLeçon de chinois\u003c\/em\u003e evoke places heavily charged with culture and history. Macé's other books include \u003cem\u003eVies antérieures\u003c\/em\u003e (1991), which takes up the relationship between memory and writing, in the form of Lives (as in the Lives of saints or illustrious men), and \u003cem\u003eLa mémoire aime chasser dans le noir\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), which develops his fascination with the image – the poetic image, dream image and photographic image. Timothy Mathews took over as Gérard Macé's translator for this edition following the death of David Kelley who had started work on the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJean-Pierre Richard was one of Europe's foremost literary critics. He has written not only on French poets but also on Stendhal, Flaubert and Proust. He has a wide following throughout Europe and the USA, and is admired particularly for his approachable and sensuous accounts of French writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBloodaxe Contemporary French Poets: 8\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloodaxe Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54247098483032,"sku":"9781852244323","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781852244323.jpg?v=1779179459","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/wood-asleep","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}