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“francis ponge”

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  • Mute Objects of Expression

    by Francis Ponge ...
    Translated by Lee Fahnestock ...
    Francis Ponge boldly proclaims his poetic goal in Mute Objects of Expression: "To accept the challenge that objects offer to language." These objects—less chosen than received spontaneously—are perceived with inimitable Pongean humor and rendered into glimmering still lifes. He gives voice to the often unnoticed aspects of natural objects and beings. Shunning familiar poetic modes, Ponge forges ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • 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

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  • Cinepoems and Others

    by Benjamin Fondane ...
    Series series NYRB Poets
    Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerful lyric poetic voice; a renegade surrealist who was also a highly original existential philosopher; a self-consciously Jewish poet of diaspora and loss, whose last manuscripts made it out of Drancy in 1944 just before his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was murdered, yet whose poetry speaks of an ... Read more

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  • In Praise of Defeat

    Poems by Abdellatif Laabi

    by Abdellatif Laabi ...
    Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ...
    One of the central writers and thinkers in contemporary Maghreb letters and banned by the Moroccan government, Abdellatif Laabi's poetry is increasingly influential on the international scene and spans six decades of political and literary change, innovation, and struggle. Including a wide range of work, from piercing domestic love poetry to a fierce lyricism of social resistance informed by ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Genius Envy

    Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900

    by Adrianna M. Paliyenko ...
    In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women’s poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed the phenomenon of genius to masculinity and dismissed the work of female authors as “feminine literature.” Despite the efforts of leading thinkers, critics, and literary historians to erase women from the ... Read more

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