Plurality of Worlds of Lewis

By Jacques Roubaud

This collection of prose and poetry elaborates on themes explored in Roubaud s Some Thing Black, which the Times Literary Supplement called a harrowing book . . . an elegy for our time. As in the earlier collection, Roubaud grapples with the grief he continues to feel at the untimely death of his young wife. In parts 1 and 2, he uses the possible existence of many worlds as a means by which to transcend the trauma of this unbearable loss. (David Lewis s book On the Plurality of Worlds provided the inspiration and title for Roubaud s book.) These poems also rage against the limitations of poetry itself, which can only clarify the exactness of his grief, not assuage it. In part 3, Roubaud uses a mathematically precise form to explore the idea of form. As a meditation on both grief and on poetry, The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis is a memorable achievement."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564780694
• ISBN13: 9781564780690
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 109 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher