A tip of the beret to Octavio Roca for flagging this fascinating article from Hyperallergic.com about the first English translation (by Sylvia Gorelick) of Stephane Mallarme's La Livre (The Book), a long poem that Octavio notes is not in the Pleiade edition of the poet's works. Mallarme (1842-1898) famously declared that "Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book," and he spent 30 years compiling this sprawling, unfinished visual poem to prove that point.
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