Dice Cup, the
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Author: Jacob, Max
First published in 1917, 'The Dice Cup' stands as one of the most important and foundational books of prose poetry. Jacob has been identified as a 'cubist poet' but this collection and its shifting style escape any such easy definition: dream accounts are rendered in playful prose that thumbs its nose at the fabular tradition of Baudelaire and the Romantic disorder of Rimbaud, subverting poetic expectations in favour of dream, allusion, transformed autobiography and nonsensical parody. At once mystical and burlesque, the prose poems of Dice Cup are consciously constructed, yet as unstable and unfixed as both Jacob’s personality and our own.Max Jacob (1876–1944) was a French poet, painter, writer and critic. A key figure of bohemian Montmartre and the Cubist era, he rubbed shoulders with Apollinaire and Modigliani and was a lifelong friend to Picasso, Gris and Cocteau. Jacob converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1915. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, he died in a deportation camp of pneumonia. Rosanna Warren's critically acclaimed biography of Jacob was published in 2020.
ISBN 9781939663863. Wakefield Press. pb. 264 pages. 20 x 14 cm.
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First published in 1917, 'The Dice Cup' stands as one of the most important and foundational books of prose poetry. Jacob has been identified as a 'cubist poet' but this collection and its shifting style escape any such easy definition: dream accounts are rendered in playful prose that thumbs its nose at the fabular tradition of Baudelaire and the Romantic disorder of Rimbaud, subverting poetic expectations in favour of dream, allusion, transformed autobiography and nonsensical parody. At once mystical and burlesque, the prose poems of Dice Cup are consciously constructed, yet as unstable and unfixed as both Jacob’s personality and our own.Max Jacob (1876–1944) was a French poet, painter, writer and critic. A key figure of bohemian Montmartre and the Cubist era, he rubbed shoulders with Apollinaire and Modigliani and was a lifelong friend to Picasso, Gris and Cocteau. Jacob converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1915. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, he died in a deportation camp of pneumonia. Rosanna Warren's critically acclaimed biography of Jacob was published in 2020.
ISBN 9781939663863. Wakefield Press. pb. 264 pages. 20 x 14 cm.
available