Poetry, Rare and Signed

Christmas at the Four Corners of the Earth

Available in limited quantity

The twelve trans-realist prose sketches in Blaise Cendrar's Christmas at the Four Corners of the Earth take the reader to Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Rotterdam, China, New Mexico, New Zealand, the Ardennes Forest, and the south Atlantic ocean. Working together they are antithesis to sentimental Christmas stories. Illustrated by Denzil Walker.

This is a first printing of the first edition. Cloth binding. Copies have been archived at BOA Editions, Ltd. since publication and are in good condition with minimal shelf wearing. Unread. Ideal collector's copy.

Praise for the collection

"In Christmas at the Four Corners of the Earth by the poet Blaise Cendrars—a leading figure in the Paris of Appollinaire and Picasso—each Christmas, pleasurable or grotesque, is evoked in brilliant detail. Everything that happens, it appears, is a matter of chance, but the poet chooses . . . Christmas, and the pieces fly together and give us a life that is like no other." —Louis Simpson

FormatHardcover

$75.00

About the Author

Born in 1887 in Switzerland, Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Sauser) was educated in Naples, Italy. A prime catalyst of the modernist movement, he wrote stories, plays, novels and poems that earned him an international reputation and one of France's highest literary honors—Pirx Litteraire de la Ville de Paris. Cendrars also dabbled in investigative journalism and memoir, in a subjective style favoring content over time and place that could be characterized as cubist. He died in 1961.