Last News of Mr. Nobody: Selected Poems by Emmanuel Moses, Marilyn Hacker (Translator), Kevin Hart (Translator)

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Synopsis

The poems in this first English language collection by Emmanuel Moses draw their immediacy from the author's experiences in childhood, one that began in Paris and ended in Jerusalem, where he emigrated with his family in 1969. His poems trace the "gray hardness of pines," the pungent scent of sea water, mud underfoot on a forest path. They offer us incidents from everyday life alongside Biblical, mythological, and historical events. History, his own and that of the wider world, is alive for Emmanuel Moses, and the observations in his work are sharpened by an aching awareness of the passage of time.

Biography

Emmanuel Moses

Emmanuel Moses is a poet, novelist, and translator. His awards include the Prix Max-Jacob, the Prix Jean-Malrieu, and the Prix-Nelly Sachs. Among his many books are, most recently, La danse de la poussiere dans les rayons du soleil, a novel (1999) and Le present, poems (1999). He has lived in Paris since 1986. He is married to the German novelist Gila Lustiger.