Throughout his career A.M. Klein struggled to define for himself the role of the poet in the contemporary world. Deeply rooted in the traditions of Judaism, and at the same time powerfully attracted by the freedom and scope of international modernism, he sought to reconcile past and present, community and creative individuality. Whether or not he finally achieved his own high aims, it was, in his own words, 'something merely to entertain them.' The result was a body of work immensely rich and varied in tone, language, cultural resonance.
This collection of eighty-four poems offers a...
Throughout his career A.M. Klein struggled to define for himself the role of the poet in the contemporary world. Deeply rooted in the traditions of...
Ce livre reunit en version originale ainsi qu'en traduction une selection de poemes qui mettent en jeu les notions d'identite et d'alterite au Canada. S'y cotoient des textes d'auteurs des deux principales communautes linguistiques du pays, mais aussi de poetes autochtones ou migrants. La pluralite des voix, la diversite des lectures possibles et la richesse du materiau montrent bien que l'identite et l'alterite constituent un horizon ouvert, signe d'une societe en evolution, donc bien vivante. -- Pluriel provides a composite snapshot, taken from a few particular angles, of the variety of...
Ce livre reunit en version originale ainsi qu'en traduction une selection de poemes qui mettent en jeu les notions d'identite et d'alterite au Canada....