Collected French Translations: Poetry

Author: John Ashbery

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Price : 49.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781847772343
Publisher : Carcanet Press, Limited
Imprint : Carcanet Press, Limited
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Publication date : 01 April 2014
Dimensions : 234mm X 156mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 49.95
Availability date : 01 June 2014
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Author : John Ashbery
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Pages : 320
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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.

Reviews

'The book invites the reader to poetic gluttony. It serves as a corrective to the monoglot provincialism by which the Anglophone world is still bedevilled.' --Sean O'Brien, Independent