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Book SynopsisLike Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential—and issuesTrade Review"The lasting feeling that his work leaves is one of happiness; not of course in the sense that it excludes suffering, but because, in it, nothing is rejected, resented, or regretted." -- W.H. Auden
"One of the master craftsmen." -- Tennessee Williams
"A man to whom every great line of poetry was a sunrise, every sunset the foundation of the Heavenly City." -- Edith Wharton
"That is how Jean Cocteau’s work seems to us, like a light, aerial, stormy civilization hanging from the heavy heart of our own. The very person of the poet adds to it, thin, knotted, silvery as olive trees" -- Jean Genet
"Cocteau’s fans won’t regret making room for this short but sweet outing on their shelves." -- Publishers Weekly
"In our current moment of distrust and anger and suspicion, Cocteau’s reminder is a welcome tonic." -- New York Journal of Books
