René Tavernier
Poèmes 34 Poems
French and English (enface)
Translation by John Bart Gerald
Back cover text for Poèmes 34 Poems:
"34 Poems is René Tavernier's first collection of poetry published in America or in English. Discovered by the Nouvelle Revue Francaise, of Gide, Malraux and Valery, and with two books of poetry published in France, he took an active part in the French Resistance of World War II. In 1941 at Lyon. he founded Confluences, a literary magazine, and as its editor published many of the writers who refused to yield their sense of human decency, among them: Camus, Sartre, Eluard, Cocteau, Claudel, and the American, Gertrude Stein, whom he was able to supply with false identity papers. Some forty years later, as President of French P.E.N., he struggles for the rights of writers persecuted under totalitarian regimes around the world. The poetry of René Tavernier continues. In life and on paper, it is without empty words, personal, sentient, uncompromising, and with the wisdom of age true to its youth. Recent poems are gathered here and translated by John Bart Gerald." - jbg
René Tavernier
Poèmes 34 Poems
Translation by J.B.Gerald
Hand lettering and cover graphic by Julie Maas
First edition 1984
Moody / New York: J.B.Gerald & J.Maas
ISBN 0.941917.07.X
99 pages, perfectbind, fragile
