World Literature Today, March 22nd, 1996
In a prefatory note to the collection Da capo, Jean Tardieu explains to the reader that all the texts in the volume are previously unpublished pieces - that is, they have never been published in book form before. Some have only appeared in periodicals; others were unfinished and now appear in their definitive version.
Readers already familiar with Tardieu's prodigious body of work will recognize the emphasis he places on the sonorous qualifies of the French language, particularly, as he points out himself, in the verse poems in which rhythm, meter, and rhyme are especially underscored. The ...
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