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The central laboratory : with a self-portrait by the author / Max Jacob ; translated by Alexander Dickow.
Van Pelt Library PQ2619.A17 L33213 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacob, Max, 1876-1944, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Laboratoire central. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xli, 323 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
- Distribution:
- New York, New York : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Wakefield Press, [2022]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: FIRST PART Perhaps the strangest of dreams
- Honor of the Sardana and the Tenora
- The Departure
- Uncertainties
- The Seaman's Departure
- A Thousand Regrets
- Hooligan's Lament
- Nocturne
- Fit of Perspective View
- The Spanish Volunteers Leave Paris
- To M. Modigliani to Prove to Him I Am a Poet
- Past and Present
- The City-Dweller Who Died for Love of Nature Gives It His Farewell
- Prognostics
- Quimper
- Concerning Derisions and Misprisions of Monsieur X ...
- Moral Death
- Establishment of a Community in Brazil
- Cancale, Twilight
- The Explorer
- Earth After the Rain
- Egyptian Symbolism
- Very Ancient Tapestry
- Dawn
- SECOND PART The melancholy Seneschal
- Moon Effect
- War and Peace
- A boat, the poet is a man of old
- Malachites
- Written in 1904
- The oaths to the gods got hot with patois
- Theme of the Advantages of Virtue
- More than a white hedgehog covered in pins
- Rue Ravignan
- When the emperor who would give up sovereignty
- No More Astrology
- Let us! sing the whale the color of cadaver
- Debit and Credit
- Korea
- Thirty-six ports! what assorted moats
- The Screamer
- Perigal-Nohor
- The intrinsic satrap tried the modesty of queens
- A Prisoner's Complaints
- Come from the night the buck out of wood
- Pastiche
- Theme of Love and Illusion
- Like a silver chime the minutes rang out
- Romantic Allusions Concerning Mardi-Gras
- Landscape
- So you've invented two and two make four
- What fine downstrokes written by the sea! No doubt
- The crow's cheese the fox would love to pillage
- Invocation-Vocation
- Atlantis
- Leon! Leon!
- Into the Furnace!
- To the planets fallen, kissed by the Muse
- Death
- THIRD PART Madame Adeline
- Villonelle
- Reflections of an Unpublished Author
- Authentic Little Orchestra
- Acidulous Music
- To My Brother-in-Law
- The Doe's Testament
- Absurd Metamorphosis
- The Sultana in Exile
- The hill in the West is both cool and pure
- Here's the former ingenue
- He wept upon his misfortune
- Slumber', sun! take up the blinds
- The Modern Wicked Stepmother
- Little English Town on Sunday
- Invitation to a Voyage
- Gala
- Pure Artists Buy Automobiles
- The letter's provenance, since it had no
- Concerning Several Invitations
- Playing the Bugle
- Madame X ...
- The Masked Ball
- Characters at the Masked Ball (Lofty hag with eagle)
- Characters at the Masked Ball (Marsupials)
- More Characters at the Masked Ball (Serenade)
- More Characters at the Masked Ball (As a Family)
- Characters at the Masked Ball (Malvina)
- More Characters at the Masked Ball
- More Characters at the Masked Ball (The Blind Lady)
- LAST PART Rainbow
- Heaven and Earth
- Rebirth of Religious Spirit
- Like Mary Magdalene
- The Sinner and the Other
- Meditation for Christmas Day
- 1920
- Glass of blood
- Earth's passing. Trial of every sense
- A Godless Artists' Household
- Meditation on Death
- Litanies of the Holy Virgin.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in French as Le laboratoire central (Paris: Au sans pareil, 1921)"--Title page verso.
- "Some of these translations have previously appeared in the following journals: Ekleksographia, Seedings, and Plume"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781939663801
- 1939663806
- OCLC:
- 1289987592
- Publisher Number:
- 99991568272
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