Sélection d'une centaine de poèmes rassemblés à l'occasion du 80e anniversaire de l'écrivain. Présentés chronologiquement, ces poèmes sont pour la plupart inédits. ©Electre 2025
On the occasion of her 80th birthday, the journal Yanam, the English Department of Strasbourg University, the members of the research groups 'Recherches sur le monde anglophone' and 'Linguistique, langue, parole', suggested publishing a selection of their colleague Jean Paira-Pemberton's poems. The present volume brings together over a hundred poems in chronological order, almost all previously unpublished. As one can imagine, the selection out of the mass produced over the period has been no easy task for the author.
It represents a summing-up of emotions and experiences between 1955 and 2009 by someone for whom poetry was a vital necessity like breathing, eating or drinking. Someone who says in "A poet's autobiography" that as a child she "could think of nothing more normal to be, than a poet".
[...] Taking up a favourite image of hers, stones and the mineral, these poems are like pieces of amber, fragments of a life coagulated in resin, brief moments of happiness, deep sufferings, brilliant or derisory epiphanies [...]
Albert Hamm
Paru le : 01/07/2010
Thématique : Revues littéraires Anthologies poésie
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Jean Paira-Pemberton
Éditeur(s) :
Université de Strasbourg, Service des publications
Collection(s) : Non précisé.
Contributeur(s) : Préfacier : Albert Hamm
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-35410-011-7
EAN13 : 9782354100117
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 234
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Poids: 430 g
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