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Subtitle: quatrains
By: François Cheng de l'Académie française
Publisher: Gallimard
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Paris]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9782072767449
Subjects: French Quatrains
Work titles: Poems
Description: Short form, but less abrupt than the haiku, the quatrain does not stick to the lapidary, he knows how to give rhythm to the thought, to the emotion, to the surprise, he knows how to initiate a questioning, to initiate a meditation, to sketch a song. Following the original Chinese poets, but also Omar Khayyâm and Emily Dickinson, François Cheng attests here the singular power of this narrow mode of expression, yet so little enclosed, so open to resonances, fertile wanderings, even in a salutary way of simple spell.--Gallimard.