White Nights

Alan Jenkins s White Nights gathers together the translations, imitations and versions mostly from French poets that he has worked on intermittently for 25 years, with a handful of longer poems, previously unpublished or published underground. Jenkins speaks of difficult passions, loneliness, lovers and friends lost to time and death; he pays homage, with gratitude and a profound sympathy if not always with reverence, to those poets from the past who have been his truest companions.
Praise for Alan Jenkins
These beautifully rhymed and metered verses provide an image of the accelerated grimace of our day indeed, this is a composite portrait, like one of Hockney s Polaroid assemblages, of a lonely, bitter dandy, the Spare Man, a black rosebud in his silk lapel. I love these poems. Edmund White"

Noaptea alba a lui Alan Jenkins reuneste traducerile, imitatiile si versiunile in mare parte ale poetilor francezi la care a lucrat intermitent de 25 de ani, cu o mana de poezii mai lungi, inedite sau publicate anterior in underground. Jenkins vorbeste despre pasiuni dificile, singuratate, iubiti si prieteni pierduti de timp si de moarte; aduce un omagiu, cu recunostinta si o profunda simpatie, daca nu intotdeauna cu respect, acelor poeti din trecut care i-au fost cei mai adevarati tovarasi.