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Dufour Editions, an independent publisher and distributor for more than forty years, has an established reputation as a fine literary house. International poetry has always been outstanding in the list, which initially began with some of Thomas Kinsella's and John Montague's first books from the prestigious Dolmen Press.
Since those early days, the complete poetry list has grown to include prize-winning poets from twenty-nine countries. Many of the poets have toured and been interviewed in the U.S. Some are Nobel Prize winners. This catalog introduces some highly regarded poets from publishers whose lists are being distributed in the U.S. and Canada for the first time.
The rewards in publishing poetry are sometimes sublime, as opposed to commercial, but reader response over the years has justified our commitment. The strength of the list is evidenced on this page, on which we salute recent prize-winners whose books are currently being read throughout the world.
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Cole Cercy
reviewed Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology on January 09, 2012
Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology
A great anthology of poems!
Kevin Young is a great poet, as I discovered when I read For the Confederate Dead a little while after getting this anthology. (Yet another book I need to do the review on soon!) As such, it is no surprise that in putting together this anthology of poems about and containing the spirit of Jazz, he finds only the best and the brightest.
However, as a poet, he's decided they're best grouped by theme and not by year. In fact, he cares so little about the when rather than the what that we don't even get a note at the end of the poems, which is a shame because I'd loved to have a better sense of context. That's the only disappointment here, though, as these poems are a perfect compliment to the medium they pay tribute to.
The sections follow a rough outline of jazz itself, starting with "Vamping--Early Poems", moving through various sections such as "horns" and "rythym", and including a few almost exclusively devoted to a player (Coltrane, Bird, Billie Holliday) and their style. Young's titles for the sections themselves form a type of poem, as it were, tying all the parts together.
Since there is a large variety of poets in this anthology, I won't try to pull quotes. However, there are selections from Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, Amiri Bakara--who does a great poetic rendition of Coltrane's jazz life, e.e. Cummings, Charles Simic, Young himself, and many others I don't know as well. There was only one poem that struck a bad chord with me, it's homophobic violence clashing with the cool. Hatred's anti-jazz, you see, at least to my way of thinking.
Most of this poetry is free verse, as befits the medium. It's also a bit blue at times, so those who don't like their language coarse may not be satisfied. But if you're a fan of experimental verse and a fan of jazz, this is definitely a good book for you! (Library, 03/07)
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