It's Farguin Great!

thompete6

May 11

1 min read

Fervent reco: Léon-Paul Fargue (anything), particularly High Solitude, in Rainer Hanshe's translation (of Haute Solitude). Lonely, shadowy, hallucinatory; a high-modern's nightly destiny, "a return to the heart," in this life that "dumps you like sand from a wheelbarrow."

Back when plump, acerbic, cigarette smoking French poets were kings.

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