Orphic Paris

Orphic Paris

A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole.

Henri Coleâ€™s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family, poetry and solitude, the self and freedom. Cole writes of Paris, â€œFor a time, I lived here, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man, I cared fully for myself, and felt no guilt and confessed nothing, and in this place I wrote, I was nourished, and I grew.â€ Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheusâ€”mystic, oracular, entrancingâ€”Orphic Paris is an intimate Paris journal and a literary commonplace book that is a touching, original, brilliant account of the city and of the artists, writers, and luminaries, including Cole himself, who have been moved by it to create.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer New York Review Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781681372181
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2018-04-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781681372181

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