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Tristan Corbiere (Twayne's World Authors Series, No 511)
Published in Textbook Binding by Twayne Pub (1979)
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Overlooked study of overlooked poet.
The Centenary Corbiere: Poems and Prose of Tristan Corbiere
Published in Paperback by Routledge (2003)
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De hemel mag het weten : over de poëzie en de persoonlijkheid van Tristan Corbière
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Itinéraire poétique en Bretagne : de Tristan Corbière à Xavier Grall
Published in Unknown Binding by L'Harmattan ()
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Le temps jaune; essais sur Corbière
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Poems
Published in Hardcover by AMS Press (1989)
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These jaundiced loves : a translation of Tristan Corbière's Les amours jaunes
Published in Unknown Binding by Peterloo Poets ()
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Tristan Corbière : la paresse et le génie
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Tristan Corbière dans Les amours jaunes
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Tristan Corbière en 1995 : lire Les amours jaunes 150 ans après la naissance du poète
Published in Unknown Binding by Comitâe Tristan Corbiáere : Bibliotháeque Municipale de Morlaix ()
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Although staying largely within conventional forms, Corbiere's poetry push these to breaking point, with the violent, phlegmatic language, frequently obscure imagery, hallucinatory, stuttering rhythms, and broken metre. His 'Litany of Sleep' was acclaimed by Surrealists, - it is a compelling barrage of variations on its titular theme, suggesting sleep as a nightmare, fertile flipside to bourgeois normality. Other poems range form the gunkily self-lacerating 'The Toad' and self-negating 'Epitaph' to the bleak, not-so-fantastical wasteland of 'Evil Landscape'.
Mitchell does an excellent job of entangling Corbiere's briary method, and revealing the artistry behind the very difficult, seemingly unyielding voice. His discussion of the Tristan persona and ironic techniques suggest, to me at least, that Corbiere uncannily foreshadowed the procedures of Nabokov, although I haven't come across any references to him in literature on the Russian.
In the absence of an available edition, Mitchell contains generous excerpts from Corbiere's work, and, unlike most English studies of French literature, he does not disdain the non-French speaking reader. Sometimes he protests too much, going round in circles and repeating himself; mostly though, this is an excellent and thorough piece of proselysation that unfortunately failed in its aim to place Corbiere at the forefront of modern poets.