'a well-informed, thorough, sensitive and excellently organized book on Laforgue's poetry as a whole ... Reading the Rhythm contains a range of treasures for the anglophone reader of modern French verse'Times Literary Supplement

• Introductory reflections on rhythm and metre; Saint-John Perse, "Eloges" (1911) - the prosody of boundary; Blaise Cendrars, "Prose du Transsiberien et de la petite Jeanne de France" (1913) - the prosody of locomotion; Guillaume Apollinaire, "Calligrammes" (1918) - the prosody of the visual; Blaise Cendrars, "Dix-neuf Poems elastiques" (1919) - the prosody of orphism; Blaise Cendrars, "Documentaires" (1924) - the prosody of photography; Julie Supervielle, "Gravitations" (1925/1932) - the prosody of displacement; Pierre Reverdy, "Sources du vent" (1929) - the prosody of cubism.

'a well-informed, thorough, sensitive and excellently organized book on Laforgue's poetry as a whole ... Reading the Rhythm contains a range of treasures for the anglophone reader of modern French verse'Times Literary Supplement

• Introductory reflections on rhythm and metre; Saint-John Perse, "Eloges" (1911) - the prosody of boundary; Blaise Cendrars, "Prose du Transsiberien et de la petite Jeanne de France" (1913) - the prosody of locomotion; Guillaume Apollinaire, "Calligrammes" (1918) - the prosody of the visual; Blaise Cendrars, "Dix-neuf Poems elastiques" (1919) - the prosody of orphism; Blaise Cendrars, "Documentaires" (1924) - the prosody of photography; Julie Supervielle, "Gravitations" (1925/1932) - the prosody of displacement; Pierre Reverdy, "Sources du vent" (1929) - the prosody of cubism.

'a well-informed, thorough, sensitive and excellently organized book on Laforgue's poetry as a whole ... Reading the Rhythm contains a range of treasures for the anglophone reader of modern French verse'Times Literary Supplement

• Introductory reflections on rhythm and metre; Saint-John Perse, "Eloges" (1911) - the prosody of boundary; Blaise Cendrars, "Prose du Transsiberien et de la petite Jeanne de France" (1913) - the prosody of locomotion; Guillaume Apollinaire, "Calligrammes" (1918) - the prosody of the visual; Blaise Cendrars, "Dix-neuf Poems elastiques" (1919) - the prosody of orphism; Blaise Cendrars, "Documentaires" (1924) - the prosody of photography; Julie Supervielle, "Gravitations" (1925/1932) - the prosody of displacement; Pierre Reverdy, "Sources du vent" (1929) - the prosody of cubism.