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  • Surrealist, Lover, Resistant: Collected Poems - Arc Classic Translations

    by Robert Desnos ...
    This extensive and wide-ranging selection is taken from three collections of the poetry of one of France's most exciting writers of the twentieth century, the surrealist Robert Desnos. Hailed as the 'prophet' of the Surrealist movement by André Breton, Desnos was a hugely influential figure across all art forms at the time, and yet today his work is completely underrepresented in the English ... Read more

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    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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  • Les Fleurs du Mal

    by Charles Baudelaire ...
    Ce recueil de 100 poèmes a été publié le 25 juin 1857 à Paris chez Poulet-Malassis. Ces poèmes sont répartis en 5 sections comportant respectivement 77, 12, 3, 5 et 3 poèmes. ... Read more

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  • A Season in Hell

    An English Translation from the French

    by Arthur Rimbaud ...
    Translated by Jeremy Denbow ...
    Arthur Rimbaud wrote a few pieces that set French poetry aghast around 1873. He'd taken to wandering Europe in lieu of university. His teachers hated him. There was a sort of subtle but perverse defiance to his work. He would create new words to describe the world around him, and produced pages of rhyming Latin verse in his mathematics class while taking notes. For a time he produced Latin ... 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

    $7.99 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 - French Bilingual Edition

    The famous volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire in two languages

    by Charles Baudelaire ...
    RÉSUMÉ : "Les Fleurs du Mal" de Charles Baudelaire est un recueil de poèmes qui a marqué un tournant dans l'histoire de la littérature française. Publié pour la première fois en 1857, ce chef-d'oeuvre explore les thèmes de la beauté, du spleen, de l'amour, et de la mort, tout en reflétant les tensions et les contradictions de la société urbaine du XIXe siècle. Baudelaire y dépeint un monde où la ... Read more

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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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  • Selected Poems of René Char

    by Rene Char ...
    Translated by Mary Ann Caws ...
    “This is a fine, bilingual edition of the works of one of the great French Surrealists. . . . The translations, by several hands, serve Char well—full of insinuating rhythms and unusual verbal couplings, they come close to the piercing beauty of the originals.” —Pat Monaghan, BooklistThe Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet’s wide stylistic and ... Read more

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  • The Self-Dismembered Man

    Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire (French Edition)

    by Guillaume Apollinaire ...
    Translated by Donald Revell ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire wrote during those years: poems of nascent surrealism, of combat and of war-weariness. Here, too, is Apollinaire's last testament, "The Pretty ... Read more

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  • Unreconciled

    Poems, 1991–2013: A Bilingual Edition

    by Michel Houellebecq ...
    Selected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Submission and The Elementary ParticlesA shimmering selection of poems chosen from four collections of one of France's most exciting authors, Unreconciled shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and reveals the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on themes that are similar to the ones in his novels, these poems are a journey into the ... 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

    $12.99 USD