The Lascaux NotebooksJean Luc Champerret, translation Philip Terry This newest Carcanet Classic collects the oldest poetry yet discovered, as written down or runed in the Ice Age in Lascaux and other caves in the Dordogne, and now translated tentatively into English for the first time. The translation is at two removes, from French versions by the mysterious linguistic genius Jean Luc Champerret, and then from the striking originals that retain such a sense of early human

Thinking it might be his final work

which offer further grounds for contemplation and provide a frame for the poems

” no experience of your so-called homeland

and lives for thousands of years

The Long Form is the story of two people composing a day together

and helped Jack Smith on the production of Flaming Creatures

and self-doubt

the vision or calling of the epiphanic

Deftly dissolving the seam between language and sensation

Written over the span of several decades―from Some Changes in 1971 to Last Poems in 2001­―Jordan’s poems are at once of their era and tragically current

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'These poems are in some sense unimaginable