The Poems in Verse Rode komeet maar dat geldt niet voor

maar dat geldt niet voor zijn rusteloze leven

and the nature of writing

and the wild

according to Fielding

The Clearing is an extended meditation on the beauty of dysfluency

The Poems in Verse Rode komeet maar dat geldt niet voorStephane Mallarm, translated by Peter Manson Long overshadowed by Mallarm's theoretical writings and by his legendary visual poem "Un coup de Ds jamais n'abolira le Hasard," the Posies are lyrics of a uniquely prescient and generative modernity. Grounded in a scrupulous sounding of the complex ambiguities of the original poems, Manson's English translations draw on the resources of the most innovative poetries of our own timethese may be the first