Orphic Paris (Signed)
New York: New York Review of Books, 2018.
Paperback.
First Printing. Signed by the author on the title page.
Henri Cole's Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. The poet explores the nature of friendship and family, poetry and solitude, the self and freedom. Cole writes of Paris, "For a time, I lived here, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man, I cared fully for myself, and felt no guilt and confessed nothing, and in this place I wrote, I was nourished, and I grew." Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheus--mystic, oracular, entrancing--Orphic Paris is an intimate Paris journal and an account of the city and of the artists, writers, and luminaries, including Cole himself, who have been moved by it to create.
Item #902275ISBN: 9781681372181
5-5/8 x 8-1/2", stiff pictorial wrappers, 175pp, illustrated.
Very fine, as new.
Price: $40.00