"Jacob's poems, which use prose as a powerful instrument of investigation into states of ecstasy and disillusion, are now here represented, in thoughtful render

A comprehensive and moving biography of Max Jacob, a brilliant cubist poet who lived at the margins of fame. Though less of a household name than his contempora

A serious artist and a literary clown nonpareil, Max Jacob was born in Brittany in 1876 and died in a Nazi prison camp in 1944. His influence on modern French p