Includes translations by fourteen leading poets for diverse literary perspectives
Original French versions of each poem for authentic reading experience
Essential works of twentieth-century French poetry, attracting American poets
Bilingual edition for readers and scholars interested in French literature
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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 R
Format
E-Book
Language
French and English
Poetry Collection
14 translations, most first in English
translators
John Ashbery, Dan Bellm, Mary Ann Caws, Lydia Davis, Marilyn Hacker, Richard Howard, Geoffrey O'Brien, Frank O'Hara, Ron Padgett, Mark Polizzotti, Kenneth Rexroth, Richard Sieburth, Patricia Terry, Rosanna Warren
