{"product_id":"9780856463778","title":"Wry-Blue Loves: Les Amours jaunes","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry Book Society Recommended Translation\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe chronically invalid son of a robust sea-captain and novelist father, Tristan Corbière (1845-75) published one book of verse and was virtually unheard of in his lifetime. He is an informal formalist, delighting in clashing registers of diction and outrageous puns. With pervasive self-mocking humour, his poems combine a hopeless love, a grounded sea-fever, a ferocious ironic compassion and a savage sympathy with dogs and underdogs. As Peter Dale writes in his introduction: 'Above all, he is his own man, able to resist the blandishments of literary theory, social expectations, and the mollifications of religion.' The book contains the entire Les Amours jaunes' and a selection of Corbière's uncollected poems.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePeter Dale worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming a freelance writer in 1993. He was co-editor of the poetry journal \u003ci\u003eAgenda\u003c\/i\u003e for many years. Well known for his translations from Dante, Jules Laforgue and François Villon, Dale is also an accomplished poet in his own right: Anvil published his new and selected poems, \u003ci\u003eEdge to Edge\u003c\/i\u003e in 1996 and his most recent collection, \u003ci\u003eUnder the Breath\u003c\/i\u003e in 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027260260592,"sku":"9780856463778","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780856463778_p0.jpg?v=1763827031","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780856463778","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}