Christopher Wilmarth: Breath inspired by seven poems of Stéphane Mallarmé

New York: Christopher Wilmarth, 1982. Christopher Wilmarth Breath Inspired by seven poems of Stéphane Mallarmé translated by Frederick Morgan. Exquisitely illustrated. "In Wilmarth's Mallarmé ensemble one senses that what has moved him most profoundly is what Mallarmé often called "the drama of the Self", and how it seeks its destined place, its site. In this drama the whole self is engaged. Just as Mallarmé repeats words in slightly altered syntax and creates new clusters of images, although his central visions remain constant, so Wilmarth in his thirty-two variations has sought to evoke the opening out of the soul…. The essence of these poems is translatable even into glass if it is allowed to gather itself in the myriad depths and reflections.