Pierre Reverdy

Areese Woodson

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Audiobooks

Description

\"Pierre Reverdy\" is a collection of poetry composed by renowned French poet Pierre Reverdy. The following recording is merely an introduction to the book but does in fact feature a poem.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US West Coast - California, Portland)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
From a collection of poems by Pierre Radi. Pierre. Radi is among the greatest of modern French poets and certainly among the most elusive. His work is at once, impersonal and intimate, crystalline and opaque, simple to the point of austerity. The landscape of his poetry is both instantly recognizable and devoid of local specificity imbued with an otherworldly strangeness. He is a secret poet for secret readers. As Octavio Paz once described him insisting on the necessity of parsing the silence, the empty spaces between what seems visible in the lines of his poems. Each feels like a fragment of the universe and yet whole, a single moment has a singular potential just for now. And Frank o'hara's translation lays the stress on that life. It's simple. It's great. The clear sun rings a sweet noise. Listen, I'm not crazy. I'm laughing at the foot of the stairway before the great wide open door and the espaliered sunshine and my arms are stretched towards you this day that I love you. It's today that I love you.