Jacob, Max & Adlard, John [translator] — Advice To A Young Poet

The Menard Press 1976 1st edition. Stapled paperback, dj, F/VG. 40pp, 2 b/w illustrations, plain covers with a slightly grubby dustjacket, a nice copy. A translation of Jacob's 1945 'Conseils À Un Jeune Poète', published in English to mark the centenary of Jacob's birth. The book was written in 1941, in the form of a series of short paragraphs, intended by Jacob to answer the question 'What is a lyrical line?' It was to be Jacob's last major statement on poetry, he died in 1944 in a Nazi deportation camp. Jacques Evrard, to whom Jacob's answer to the question was directed, provides an afterword. Max Jacob [ 1876 - 1944 ] French poet, painter, writer, and critic.