French Poetry

Reducere. Where the Dreams Cross: T.S. Eliot and French Poetry reconstructs the poetic career of one of the major poets of the twentieth century by closely a...

DescriptionThis collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry--a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas...

Reducere. A new bilingual (French-English) edition of Selected Poems from one of the 20th Century's most majestic poets. Acclaim for Carlson's work has inclu...

Reducere. The Complete Poetry of Aim C saire gathers all of Cesaire's celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly e...

An authoritative and accessible account of French literature from medieval romance to avant-garde poetry. It explores the medieval roots of modern ...

A bilingual collection of poetry, from elegies to poem memoirs, by a revered French master. For more than four decades Claire Malroux has blazed a ...

Reducere. The late Edmond Jabes was a major voice in French poetry in the latter half of this century. An Egyptian Jew, he was haunted by the question of pla...

Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) is one of the giants of nineteenth-century French poetry. Leader of the Symbolist movement, he exerted a powerful inf...

Originally published in 1939, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Negr...

Reducere. This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of Cesaire's poetry--the complex and challeng...

This unique anthology includes generous selections from the six nineteenth-century French poets most often read in the English-speaking world today...

These are selected poems of the eminent modern Iraqi poet Badre Shākir Al-Sayyāb (1926-1964) who developed a modern style in writing Arabic poetry,...

Considers the multiplicity and instability of medieval French literary identity, arguing that it is fluid and represented in numerous ways. The wor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Aime CesaireTranslator: N. Gregson DavisIntroduction by: Francis Abiola IreleOriginally published in 1939, AimC saire's Cah...

In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and...

In mastering French, nothing is more important than learning to pronounce the words and phrases so that you can be understood. This CD-and-book pro...

Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-...

Written in spoken word poetry and underscored entirely by original music created live, Electrolyte is an explosive piece of gig-theatre exploring g...

Reducere. Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Edited by Kent Johnson and Roberto Echavarren. Named in homage to Isidore Ducasse, the Uruguayan-...

Reducere. Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838-1889), though best known for his contes cruels and his proto science fiction novel L'Ève future, began his career wit...

As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798) and was by t...

This volume includes an essential selection of Blake's poetry, from the lesser-known Poetical Sketches to his celebrated Songs of Innocence and of ...

Reducere. "With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion."-Edgar Allan Poe. Containing such famous works as "The Raven", "Lenore", "Annabel Lee", and ...

Reducere. T. S. Elliot (1888-1965) was the dominant force in twentieth-century British and American poetry. With poems such as ``The Love Song of J. Alfred P...

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONFleche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Cha...

Reducere. Writing, running, reading poetry, talking with Chinese children, eating cheese and drinking red wine with death in the distance.Troisième Vague is ...

Called "the funniest book on fashion ever written" by Vogue, here is the hilarious chronicle of life behind the runway For years, French journalist...

Reducere. Poetry, Translation. Ten poems by Sagawa Chika are conveyed into English and other languages through a variety of translation techniques and proced...

The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarka...

Reducere. DescriptionLes Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was imp...

Reducere. DescriptionVictor Marie Hugo (French: 26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is ...

The poems of Kevin Hart have nurtured international poetry audiences for nearly four decades. Translations of Hart's work have appeared in Chinese,...

Considered the most inovative study of Chinese poetry ever written, Francois Cheng's Chinese Poetic Writing--now in its first expanded, English-lan...

G tterd mmerung is Len Gasparini's fifteenth book of poetry since the early 1970s. What distinguishes this collection from his earlier work is the ...

William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his ...

Reducere. Praise for "Boston, My Blissful WinterThe keen eye and pen of French author Alain Briottet deftly sketches the luminous beauty of Boston's soul in ...

Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance and survive the Nazis Buchenwald conce...

Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Rimbaud as one of the most influential poets of late nineteenth-century France. Remarkable not o...

Michael Ferber's accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language tackles a wide range of subjects from a linguistic point of view. Wri...

Reducere. Poetry. Caribbean Studies. Ida Faubert (1882--1969) is a 20th-century Haitian-French poet considered a Caribbean--and especially Haitian--literary ...

Reducere. Two great works of poetry together in one book: 'Les Fleurs du Mal' and 'The Flowers of Evil'. Baudelaire's stunning original French and John Tidba...

7/15/95 Paris Xicancuicatl collects the poetry of leading avant-garde Chicanx poet Alfred Arteaga (1950-2008), whom French philosopher Gilles Deleu...

A collection of essays, reviews, and interviews that is designed to ignite a more wide-ranging critical appraisal of Donald Revell's writing, from ...

For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other ...

Reducere. DescriptionRilke's French poetry appears here for the first time in readable, musical versions. Largely unknown and rarely collected, these poems w...

Reducere. The Enormous Room is a fictionalized autobiographical account of the three months that E. E. Cummings spent in a French prison under suspicion of e...

'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world'Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism, and the...

DescriptionPoems Written Abroad is the first publication of the earliest collection of poetry by the famous poet, novelist, literary critic, transl...

Reducere. A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history o...

In the summer of 1935, Vitezslav Nezval, already one of the most celebrated Czech poets of his generation, embarked on a period of manic creativity...

Reducere. This edition of Nelligan's poems, with a critical introduction by the editor and translator, is the first complete English translation of Nelligan'...

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Reducere. Antonio Machado is, without a doubt, the father of modern Spanish lyric poetry: a bridge that stretches between B cquer, Rub n Dar o and the genera...

Reducere. To this day, Emily Dickinson remains a beloved and enigmatic figure in American poetry. This "lady in white, " who shut herself away from the world...

Reducere. The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis' The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.In 1974, French aeria...

Reducere. Poetry. Translated from the French by Peter Manson. THE POEMS IN VERSE is Peter Manson's translation of The Poésies of Stéphane Mallarmé. Long over...

Alisoun Sings finds its starting-point with Chaucer's iconic, proto-feminist Wife of Bath. Her forceful voice leads the way across narratives of ge...

Reducere. The jewel of America's great avenues, St. Charles Avenue is a five-mile journey through a century of architectural styles. Presented here are never...

Reducere. Poetry. Translated by Austin Carder. Featuring an introduction by Adonis. The first book-length translation of works by this important Egyptian-bor...

After a 30 year marriage, Mia's husband asks for a 'pause' to indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague. Raging deeply, Mia retreats to...

Reducere. Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncon...

This critical biography of A. Mary F. Robinson traces her unorthodox journey through the literary circles of London and Paris as a writer of poetry...

Reducere. Through translations by two major contemporary poets and a scholar intimate with the Ponge canon, this volume offers selections of mostly earlier p...

DescriptionFans of the style of William Faulkner will want to read Henri Bosco, four-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Available in E...

Reducere. One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature Cowboy Graves is an unexpected tre...

Reducere. Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Translated by Brian Kim Stefans. Poet of logical revolts, of sexual freedom, inveterate modernist, Symbolist, and inspirat...

Reducere. The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas. Jean Anouilh Five Plays--the f...

Reducere. "They padded their way into adulthood;growing up, they learned to line what they felt."Dedicated to all the kids inside grown bodies who have a lot...

Xicancuicatl collects the poetry of leading avant-garde Chicanx poet Alfred Arteaga (1950-2008), whom French philosopher Gilles Deleuze regarded as...

Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sen...