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| "The
Basement Trains" by Roman Payne |
| ModeRoom
Press | 2006 | ISBN
978-0-6151-3576-2 |
The
Basement Trains is available in many American bookstores
and select bookstores in Paris. Suggested retail is $5.80.
The currently published edition is bilingual,
French and English, with the two languages
offset on facing pages for quick refrence between the
translation and the original English version.
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| About
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poem begins in ‘an ancient garden in the midnight
city,’ where a nocturnal recollection of the
past begins an epic voyage traversing centuries of
ideas and continents of profound imagery. |
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| “The
Basement Trains,” Payne’s greatest long
prose poem, written when he was 28 years old, conjures
up a wealth of poetic legacies: from Dante’s
visit to the underworld, to TS Eliot’s ‘Mind
of Europe.’ Here, one sees William Blake, Milton,
the Catholic Bible, Greek and Roman myth, Russian
folklore; and, beyond this, one hears the voice of
Roman Payne in its purest poetic form. |
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This
bilingual first-edition contains the superb translation
into French by Aurélien Galateau.
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edition is illustrated with photographic plates by
the author. |
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| "A
lyrical masterpiece!" - Reactor Magazine |
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| "Roman
Payne brings a very mellifluous style, sublime effects,
a kind of chivalric erotic melancholy, and a sense of
hope and ardor peculiar to hs talent. It's a pleasure
to read his sentences." |
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