Each poem begins with an epigraph that distills a subject and then goes on to elaborate, extrapolate, complicate. Each poem reverses "communication"; pushes meaning from one image to the next, taking
One of the most original and influential European poets of the Middle Ages, Francois Villon took his inspiration from the streets, taverns, and jails of Paris. Villon was a subversive voice speaking f
The book examines the reception of Baudelaire in China by translators, critics, scholars, and individual writers. It reveals not only the protean qualities of Baudelaire’s work, but developments and t
In 1923, Fondane (1898-1944) moved from his native Romania to France, says Finkenthal (physics and astronomy, Johns Hopkins U.) where he lived and wrote until he died at Auschwitz. He is little known
A lavish feast for the eyes, this reprint of a 1927 edition contains the original French verses plus new English translations. Witty interpretations of classic fables include "The Cicada and the Ant,"
Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorp
The modernist masterpiecethat is Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of JohnAshbery’s “dazzling” (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of thelit
In La Folie Baudelaire, Roberto Calasso—one of the most original and acclaimed writers on literature, art, culture, and mythology—turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteent
This volume brings Moroccan poet Rachida Madani's remarkable poems to English-language readers for the first time. In Tales of a Severed Head, Madani addresses present-day issues surrounding the role
Poet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle epoque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferousl
Generating an exciting poetic dialogue that is as insightful as it is eloquent and creative, this combined poem and complementary philosophical analysis is an astute rendering of the intersection of i
Editors McGrady (French, U. of Virginia) and Bain (music, Dalhousie U.) offer an introductory essay explaining Machaut's significance and what distinguishes his life and his extant oeuvre of writings
The poems go two by two across facing pages, where they press against each other, connect, and go forth in a tremulous manifesto. The result is a syntactical vertigo poised above nothingness. The halv
The period from the 1850s to the 1890s in Paris marked a key turning point for poets and composers, as they grappled with the new ways in which poetry and music could intersect. Under the particular c
In his ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound begins his short list of nineteenth-century French poets to be studied with Theophile Gautier.? Widely esteemed by figures as diverse as Charles Baudelaire, the Gonco
Hédi Kaddour’s poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic—of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, or human cruelty. With Treason, the award-winn
Kathryn Mills argues that despite the enduring celebrity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, their significance to modern art has been misunderstood. Mills places Le Spleen de Paris and Trois contes, their au
