Poetry in Translation (French) #1
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This particular reading list is "Poetry in Translation (French) #1" and contains a selection of several interesting works of French poetry in translation.
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“Edge” – by Claire Malroux
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“Edge” by Claire Malroux: A Review “Edge” offers a selection of poems from Claire Malroux’s previous volumes, expertly translated by Marilyn Hacker. Claire Malroux was born in Albi, France, and now lives in Paris and Cabourg. She is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and is herself a highly esteemed translator and […]
“Hitting the Streets” – by Raymond Queneau
“Hitting the Streets” by Raymond Queneau: A Review Raymond Queneau was born in Normandy in 1903 and studied at the Sorbonne before military service and a career working for the Gallimard publishing house. A novelist, philosopher, poet, mathematician and translator, he was a leading figure in twentieth-century French literary life, a prolific writer […]
“Selected Poems” – by Jacques Prévert
“Selected Poems” by Jacques Prévert: A ReviewJacques Prévert (1900-77) has been the most widely-read poet in France for years, but he is hardly known in the English-speaking world, except perhaps as the screenwriter of ‘Les Enfants du Paradis’. With very little of Prévert’s work available in English, I was delighted with this collection […]
“The Inventors and Other Poems” – by René Char
“The Inventors and Other Poems” by René Char: A Review One of the foremost poets of the French Resistance, René Char has been hailed as “the conscience of modern French poetry.” Translated by Mark Hutchinson, The Inventors is a companion volume to Char’s critically acclaimed Hypnos. It gathers more than forty poems that […]
“Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War” by Guillaume Apollinaire
“Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War” by Guillaume Apollinaire: A Review A fully annotated, bilingual edition, “Calligrammes” is a key work not only in Apollinaire’s own development but in the evolution of modern French poetry. Apollinaire – Roman by birth, Polish by name (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitski), Parisian by choice – died at thirty-eight […]
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