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COLD WATER SHIELDED: Selected Poems.(Review)(Brief Article)
SALAH STETIE, TRANS. BY MICHAEL BISHOP. Bloodaxe (Dufour, dist.), $22.95 paper (224p) ISBN 1-85224-487-9
Insistently and aggressively plumbing issues of form, matter, signification and meaning in a classically chiseled style that is at once austere and excessive, Stetie sets himself apart from more colloquial Gallic abstractionists such as Yves Bonnefoy and Jacques Dupin. Stetie, a French-Lebanese poet who writes in French, successfully merges elements of Eastern mysticism with the above (quintessentially French) poetic concerns, but his densely elliptical work bears perhaps a stronger debt to German romanticism. Bringing together selections of work from 1973 to 1995, …
