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<\/div>\nBelow, the opening paras of a useful review, to say the least, of what looks like the\u00a0major anthology of French poetry since 1960. I haven’t gotten ahold of\u00a0the book yet, but both anthologizers, Yves di Manno & Isabelle Garron, are excellent poet-scholars, so I am confident of their collaboration. Interestingly enough, it would seem that one of the angles from where they go at evaluating the poetry of that time is via the new American post-war poetry. See\u00a0the cover of the book below, making the idea of “a new world” “Un Nouveau Monde” \u2014 the title of the anthology\u2014 clear via an American (or, maybe they imply…?) a post-american image.<\/p>\n
A limit of the book, also noted by the reviewer in Media-Part, is that it remains confined to “metropolitan France,” i.e. does not take into account the vast store of poetries\u00a0produced during those years (years that nearly exactly define post-colonial times as Algeria, the last colony \u2014 though in fact there are still a number of DOM-TOMS, including C\u00e9saire’s Martinique\u2014 got independence in 1962) in French in the ex-colonies \u2014 for me, among the strongest, if not the strongest French-language poetry of those years. But obviously, any anthology has to delimit its range & there is nothing intrinsically wrong with taking hexagonal France as such a limit. From the reviewers lauds of the inclusion of information and details of the magazine scene in which this work appeared, and from the sheer bulk of the opus \u2014 1,500 pages! \u2014the book is\u00a0indeed very impressive. Can’t wait to get my hands on it. Yves, Isabelle, how about a second volume, breaking down those\u00a0borders?<\/p>\n
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