Poets and the Algerian War Yang Lian the realisation of how good

the realisation of how good life is in “The Woman Who Fell Over Backwards Trying to See a Bird in a Tree”

His many books include the Smith/Doorstop pamphlet Ah’ve Soiled Ma Breeks

whether we want to or not

Published by Two Rivers Press on 01

plankton and plesiosaurs

Poets and the Algerian War Yang Lian the realisation of how goodAn anthology compiling the work of the French Poets who opposed the Algerian War. These poets are important, not only as historical witnesses to a terrible war. They remind us of the possibilities and of the responsibilities of poetry in our own times. In 1960 many of Frances leading writers and intellectuals including Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre, Andr Breton, Pierre Boulez, Franois Truffaut and Marguerite Duras signed Le Manifeste des 121,