A Matter of Blue - (Lannan Translations Selections) by Jean-Michel Maulpoix (Paperback)

About the Book

Prose poems and blank verse poems encompassing melancholy, nostaligia and hope with formal and thematic symmetry.

Book Synopsis

Prose poems and blank verse poems encompassing melancholy, nostaligia and hope with formal and thematic symmetry.

Review Quotes

"In A Matter of Blue, we read that blue is what we would like to cultivate, something that clings to bees' feet and the poet's lips, something that can be used as a basis for composition or creation, something that is inherent in the gaze of the dark-eyed women . . ."-Dawn Cornelio

About the Author

Jean-Michel Maulpoix was born November 11, 1952 in Montbeliard, France. He is the author of twenty-five poetry collections, and thirteen volumes of essay and criticism. He is director of the quarterly literary journal Le Nouveau Recueil and Professor of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at the University Parix X-Nantere. Dawn Cornelio received her PhD in French from University of Connecticut. Her thesis was based on translating the poetry of Jean-Michel Maulpoix. Since 2002 she has been assistant professor of French Studies at University of Guelph (Ontario). Her translations have appeared in various literary journals.