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Poetry. Translated from the French by Cole Swensen. The word "oxo" means, literally, "a bouillon cube," and this book of fine, spare poetry becomes a conceptual cube-- seven sections of seven poems, with each poem composed of seven lines of seven syllables. At the same time, the inclusion of Suzzan Doppelt's seven photographs render it a kind of "flip-book" of verbal and visual snapshots of life in contemporary Paris: its tourists, its homeless, its politicians, its TV news, its pigeons, and its poetry. "studied or not the gesture/ with which she laces up her/ naked back and calves baked on/ the beach evokes the damsel/ victim across the railroad/ tracks of thes silent slap with/ a stick on the ass slapstick"-- from `vacationer.' ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 767 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Le cinema des familles.(Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Alan Roberts
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 74Issue: 3Page: 619

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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