The Selected Poems of Max Jacob

by Jacob, Max; Kulik, William (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780932440860
• ISBN10: 093244086X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Oberlin College Pr

Summary

"These brilliant poems, these multifaceted diamonds, reflect back upon us even now as valuable informants on contemporary poetic style and as sheer, stand-alone genius. Kulik's translations are topnotch" -- Rain Taxi

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(16)
Foreword to The Dice Cup/ Le cornet a des	27	(1)
1914	28	(1)
1914	29	(1)
War	30	(1)
Memoirs of a Spy	31	(1)
Searching for the Traitor	32	(1)
The Key	33	(1)
1889-1916	34	(1)
Capital. Place-Setting	35	(1)
The Feminist Question	36	(1)
La Rue Ravignan	37	(1)
Moon Poem	38	(1)
Frontispiece	39	(1)
Poem	40	(1)
In the Background	41	(1)
In Hill Country	42	(1)
The Novel	43	(1)
Literature and Poetry	44	(1)
Literary Standards	45	(1)
A Bit of Art Criticism	46	(1)
My Life	47	(1)
Biographical	48	(1)
Father Unknown	49	(1)
Life of the Party	50	(1)
The Concarneau Regatta	51	(1)
Let's Bring Back the Old Themes	52	(1)
Sir Elizabeth (Pronounced Soeur)	53	(1)
Errors of Mercy	54	(1)
The Two Elite Audiences	55	(1)
Poem	56	(1)
from The Cock and the Pearl	57	(4)
Allusion to a Circus Act	61	(1)
Sad Last Appeal to the Phantoms Inspirations from the Past	62	(1)
The Tough Guy's Lament	63	(1)
Leon! Leon!	64	(1)
Poem	65	(2)
Absurd Metamorphosis	67	(1)
A View in Perspective	68	(1)
Playing the Horn	69	(1)
To Mr. Modigliani to Prove I'm a Poet	70	(2)
Watered Earth	72	(1)
Festival	73	(1)
Malachites	74	(1)
Other Characters at the Masked Ball	75	(1)
Other Characters at the Masked Ball: The Blind Woman	76	(1)
Menage of Godless Artists	77	(1)
Glass of Blood	78	(2)
Litanies for the Holy Virgin	80	(2)
Warning!	82	(1)
Demons as I Rise	83	(1)
Hell Has Gradations	84	(1)
Achilles' Wheel	85	(1)
First Symposium	86	(1)
Second Symposium	87	(1)
Third Symposium	88	(1)
On Death	89	(1)
Shore	90	(1)
Seascape at Roscoff	91	(1)
Jean Jacques	92	(1)
The Best Girl	93	(1)
Travels: Antibes and the Antibes Road	94	(2)
Sunday in Marseilles: Prose Impressions	96	(2)
Ballad of the Night Visitor	98	(2)
The Balcony of Romeo and Juliet	100	(1)
Conservatories	101	(1)
Burial in Quimper	102	(2)
Our Earthly Virtues are Castles in the Air	104	(1)
In Paradise	105	(1)
``In the age of enchantment...''	106	(1)
Christian Families	107	(1)
If Guillaume's Death Had Been Christian	108	(1)
``At the outskirts of town...''	109	(1)
Infernal Visions	110	(1)
The Pilgrims at Emmaeus	111	(1)
Write Your Memoirs	112	(1)
Novel 1943	113	(1)
Magic Confessions	114	(2)
The Seasons	116	(2)
``Max Is a Lunatic'' (Everyone)	118	(3)
Loving Thy Neighbor	121	(1)
The Yellow Star Again	122	(1)
Death	123	(1)
Ballad of the Perpetual Miracle	124	(1)
The Restless Soul Remarkes Heaven	125	(1)
Prophetic Dreams	126	(1)
Artless Lines	127	(2)
Reconstruction	129	(1)
Acknowledgments	130