Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Colette, Édith Piaf, whom he cast in one of his one act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940, and Raymond Radiguet.
His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both lived through and helped define and create. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim.
تعدادی از اشعار ژان کوکتو ( 1963 _ 1889 ) شاعر و نمایش نامه نویس و فیلمساز فرانسوی ، دو امتیاز کتاب از نظر من : ۱. ترجمه ی شعر ها از اصل فرانسه صورت گرفته و به نسبت ترجمه ی روان و خوبی دارد ، بخصوص در مقایسه با ترجمه ی دیگر مترجم ( از ما دو نفر کدام یک غایب است )
۲. مقدمه ی کوتاه و به نسبت جامع و خوبی هم دارد بخصوص برای مخاطب عام تر و کسی که با ژان کوکتو تا بحال آشنا نشده است .
در کل کتاب بدی نیست و با توجه به حجم کم و قیمت پائین آن اگر دوست داشتید بخوانید .