Azure : poems and selections from the "Livre" / Stéphane Mallarmé ; a new translation by Blake Bronson-Bartlett and Robert Fernandez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1842-1898, author.

Contributor:

Bronson-Bartlett, Blake, translator.

Fernandez, Robert, 1980- translator.

Series:

Wesleyan poetry

Wesleyan Poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxii, 203 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2015]

Summary:

During his lifetime, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) was recognized as one of the greatest modern French poets. He wrote extensively on themes of reality and his desire to turn away from it, marrying form and content in revolutionary ways that departed drastically from the more tightly controlled French tradition. Despite his status as one of the first modernists, much of Mallarmé's radicalism has been lost in translation. Finally, in this new collection by Blake Bronson-Bartlett and Robert Fernandez, the magic and mastery of form and diction so striking in Mallarmé's French verse comes to life in English. Drawing from Poésies (1899 edition), Un coup de dés (A Cast of Dice), and the "Livre" (the "Book"-the overarching conceptual work left unfinished at the death of the poet), this collection captures Mallarmé's true linguistic brilliance, bringing the poems into our current context, while retaining the music, playfulness, and power of the originals. Book jacket.

Contents:

Poésies [Edition Deman, 1899] 1

Salut 3

Hex 4

Apparition 7

Hopeless Plea 8

This Worked-Over Clown 9

Windows 10

Flowers 11

Renewal 13

Anguish 14

"Tired of my indolence..." 15

The Bell Ringer 16

Summertime Sadness 17

The Azure 18

Sea Breeze 20

Sigh 21

Alms 22

Their Desirable Gift 23

Herodiade [scene] 24

The Afternoon of a Faun [Eclogue] 30

"Lock of hair..." 34

Saint 35

Funeral Toast 36

Prose [for des Esseintes] 38

Fan [of Mme. Mallarmé] 40

Other Fan [of Mile. Mallarmé] 41

Scrap, as for an Album 42

Remembrance of Belgian Friends 43

Street Song I (The Shoemaker) 44

Street Song II (Herb Vendor) 45

Ticket 46

Tune I ["So atones (choose)"] 47

Tune II ["My drives'"] 48

Various Sonnets

"When shade..." 49

"Vivacious, pretty hymen..." 50

"Suicide. Good death..." 51

"Her pure nails..." 51

Tomb of Edgar Poe 53

Tomb of Charles Baudelaire 54

Tomb (Anniversary-January 1897) 55

Homage [Wagner] 56

Homage [Puvis de Chavannes] 57

"To you colonist..." 58

I 59

II 60

III 61

"What balm-of-time-silk..." 62

"Straight to your story..." 63

"Red fire lozenge..." 64

"Leaves seal the name..." 65.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780819575791

0819575798

9780819575807

0819575801

OCLC:

907190253