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Article: Verse.(Review)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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Jacques Jouet. Navet, linge, eil-de-vieux. 3 vols. Paris. POL. 1998. 938 pages. 350 F. ISBN 2-86744-668-6.
We hear from every quarter that poetry is a dying art, confined to an ever more constricted circle of quirky amateurs, doomed by cynical publishers who regard poetry manuscripts with the kind of loathing one normally reserves for terminal disease. Yet here, astonishingly enough, comes a three-volume collection of verse from the contemporary French poet Jacques Jouet.
Navet, linge, eil-de-vieux is many things; but principally, perhaps, it is a resounding affirmation of the vitality of poetry as a cultural practice. From 1 April 1992 to the present, ...