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Tristan Corbiere (1845–1875) born Édouard-Joachim Corbiere, was a French poet remarkable in his day for his realistic pictures of seafaring life, and for his innovative use of irony and slang and [...]

— Cabin boy: tell me, is your father a sailor? — A fisherman. Lost long ago. Rising from my mother's side, he went out to sleep with the breakers. In the cemetery Mother keeps his tomb — an empty [...]