Collected French Translations: Poetry Paperback / softback
by John Ashbery
Paperback / softback
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The companion volume to Collected French Translations: Prose, this book reflects John Ashbery's lifelong engagement with French poetry.
From 1955 Ashbery spent almost a decade in France, working as an art critic, and formed a close relationship with the poet Pierre Martory.
His versions of Martory's poems (published by Carcanet as The Landscapist), featured here, were a 2008 Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. This bilingual volume presents translations from twenty-four poets, among them Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy, Paul Eluard and France's greatest living poet, Yves Bonnefoy.
It also includes a selection from Ashbery's masterly translation of Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations, published to acclaim in 2011.
The development of modern French poetry - through Romanticism, Symbolism, Dada and Surrealism - emerges chronologically through Ashbery's choices; as does the lasting influence of French poetry on Ashbery's own iconoclastic career.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date:24/04/2014
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- ISBN:9781847772343
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date:24/04/2014
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- ISBN:9781847772343