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Didier Cahen, translated by Cid Corman:
A WORLD IN PROSE


tel-let 1818 Phillips Pl.
Charleston, IL, 61920


34 pp.

Poems that tick off various greys and nullities in flat usually two- to four-word sentences like- "all secret/ sky infirm/ distant runs the other shore." But the poems, in sequence, subtly (and secularly) sneak from genesis ("Man comes/ day breaks") to a poem in which "the fable is renewed" and "all is carven in you/ life envelops night/ dying is impossible."--Bob Grumman


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This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #2,
Copyright Burning Press 1993, 1995.

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