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Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Parisian bohemian Charles Baudelaire, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the...

A penetrating and encompassing English-language translation from the celebrated French poet touching on death, domesticity, nature, language itself, and-always-the body.French literary icon Marie-Claire Bancquart (1932-2019) is known for an uncanny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376509Author Arthu RimbaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532603327Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Life in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux's (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a laboratory of fantastical, destructive energies in which the poet...

Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was born to French parents in Montevideo, orphaned within a year of his birth, and grew up in Uruguay and France. He spent the Second World War exiled in Uruguay, afflicted by ill health and financial ruin. His poems are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176795Author Pierre ReverdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm)...

Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Full of stories, landscapes, comedy, history, heresies, animals, food, drink, and songs of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374604Author Andre BretonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

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Heir to Mallarme and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Valery was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782322144181Author Charles BaudelaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 195g

Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the...

This selection is from L'Espace du Dedans, which collected eight books of prose poems, sketches and free verse. Brilliantly translated by Richard Ellmann, Michaux asks readers to join him in a fantastic world of the imagination. It is a world where wry...

Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Labe and Maurice Sceve to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156074063Author St John PerseFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 129mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179246Author Guillaume ApollinaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375007Author Alice Paalen RahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781965874080Author Lizzy Mercier DesclouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Inpatient PressPublisher Inpatient Press

Sylvie Kande's neo-epic in three cantos is a double narrative combining today's tales of African migration to Europe on the one hand, with the legend of Abubakar II on the other: Abubakar, emperor of 14th-Century Mali, sailed West toward the new world,...

Where Are the Trees Going? brings together some of the latest work of the poet and novelist Venus Khoury-Ghata in a manner that showcases her central concerns in a wholly novel and provocative format. Renowned translator Marilyn Hacker interleaves a full...

This collection of Valery's occasional pieces--speeches, interviews, articles--shows him very much as the public figure, the first in demand when an "occasion" needed a prominent person. Included are his speech before the French Academy on his reception...

Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas's new translations of Aime Cesaire's Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed expose to a new audience a pivotal figure in twentieth-century French literature. This collection presents the early and last...

Includes some of Valery's finest strokes of imagination, Broken Stories; some of his wittiest observations, Mixtures, Poems in the Rough; and even two of his great poems, Parables and The Angel--all written in the form of prose. Originally published in...

This collection of Valery's occasional pieces--speeches, interviews, articles--shows him very much as the public figure, the first in demand when an "occasion" needed a prominent person. Included are his speech before the French Academy on his reception...

Swift yet resonant, this masterful new verse translation conveys the immediacy, intimacy, and power of this greatest of Old French epic poems. John DuVal approaches the unadorned syntax of The Song of Roland in straightforward modern English, attuned to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999261378Author Perrin LangdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945665134Author Jack HirschmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Manic D PressPublisher Manic D PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm *...

Crowned "Prince of Poets" in his later years, Paul Verlaine stands out among the iconoclastic founders of French modernist verse. This diglot anthology offers the most comprehensive selection of Verlaine's poetry available in English translation...

Thousand Times Broken brings together three extraordinary, previously untranslated books in which Henri Michaux's art and poetry merge in ways never seen before, composing a journey in which we----with the great visionary Michaux as our guide----are...

From the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has been considered the most important and influential French poet since World War II. A prolific writer, critic, and translator, Bonnefoy continues to compose groundbreaking new work sixty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179000Author Benjamin FondaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605439549Author Gavin L O'KeefeFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Ramble HousePublisher Ramble HouseWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083062600Author Albert GiraudFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Omar Alejandro Rodriguez RosasPublisher Omar Alejandro Rodriguez RosasWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780004624Author Victor HugoFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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 Selection contains 53 poems which the editors...

Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95) freely plundered the works of Aesop, Phaedrus, Bidpai and others to transform the world's great fables into charming poems of astonishing originality, wit and verve. Here he depicts lions, frogs, donkeys, rats, insects,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857428691Author Rene CharFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Seagull BooksPublisher Seagull BooksWeight(grams) 127g