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  • Poems That Sing by French Masters

    by Leon Schwartz ...
    A collection of fifteen poets representative of their times and their stature in French poetry. Translated by Leon Schwartz, a professor of French at California State University. Schwartz remained as faithful as he could to particular schemes of rime and meter, as well as the sound play, imagery, and meaning of each poem. Themes include life's beauties, the emotions of love, and the pain of loss. ... Read more

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  • Rimbaud Complete

    by Arthur Rimbaud ...
    Translated by Wyatt Mason ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete*,* the first and only truly complete edition of Rimbaud’s ... Read more

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  • A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat

    by Arthur Rimbaud ...
    Translated by Louise Varèse ...
    A reissue of Rimbaud’s highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin lustig.New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud’s A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat — a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from “the examination of his own depths. ... Read more

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  • A Season in Hell & Illuminations

    by Arthur Rimbaud ...
    Translated by Wyatt Mason ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Wyatt Mason“The definitive translation for our time.”–Edward HirschFrom Dante’s Inferno to Sartre’s No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell–written when the poet was nineteen–provides an astonishing example of the grapple with self.As a companion to ... Read more

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  • Collected Poems in English and French

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Series series Beckett, Samuel
    This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation. ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Alcools

    Poems

    by Guillaume Apollinaire ...
    Translated by Donald Revell ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness. Champion of "cubism", Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) fashions in verse the sonic equivalent of what Picasso accomplishes in his cubist works: simultaneity. Apollinaire has been so influential that without him there would have been no ... Read more

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  • The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal (English and French Edition)

    by Charles Baudelaire ...
    Upon its original publication in 1857 Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" or "The Flowers of Evil" was embroiled in controversy. Within a month of its publication the French authorities brought an action against the author and the book's publisher claiming that the work was an insult to public decency. Eventually the French courts would acknowledge the literary merit of Baudelaire's work but ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Poems Under Saturn

    Poèmes saturniens

    by Paul Verlaine ...
    Translated by Karl Kirchwey ...
    Series series The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
    The first complete English edition of Verlaine's important first book of poemsPoems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This new translation, by respected contemporary poet Karl Kirchwey, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • New Impressions of Africa

    by Raymond Roussel ...
    Translated by Mark Ford ...
    Series series Facing Pages
    A new translation of a masterpiece of modernist poetryPoet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle époque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned. New Impressions of Africa is undoubtedly Roussel ... Read more

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  • Flowers of Evil

    A Selection

    by Charles Baudelaire ...
    Translated by Christopher Mattison ...
    Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, which in successive editions contained all of his published poems, has opened new vistas for man's imagination and quickened the sensibilities of poets everywhere.The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modem poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable.Flowers of Evil: A ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems

    by Pierre Ronsard ...
    Translated by Malcolm Quainton, Elizabeth Vinestock ...
    Ronsard is considered one of France's greatest love poets, yet his poetic achievements are not restricted to his verses of love, wine and nature. A true Renaissance figure, his themes ranged from politics, science and philsophy, to the bawdy and risqué. Using Greco-Roman and Italian poetic models, and drawing on the rich images of classical mythology, Ronsard revolutionised the tradition of French ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Pierre Reverdy

    by Pierre Reverdy ...
    Translated by John Ashbery, Kenneth Rexroth, Lydia Davis ...
    Series series NYRB Poets
    The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth-century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime. Reverdy’s poetry has exerted a special attraction on American poets, from Kenneth Rexroth to John Ashbery, and this new selection, featuring ... Read more

    $9.99 USD