Anabase

Name: Anabase
Author: Saint-John Perse

by Saint-John Perse

French epic poem depicting a desert expedition as metaphor for spiritual journey

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Saint-John Perse

French poet born in Guadeloupe who won the Nobel Prize in 1960. His long, ceremonial prose poems Anabase, Winds, and Seamarks evoke landscape and migration with biblical amplitude.

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