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Zone : selected poems / Guillaume Apollinaire ; translated from the French by Ron Padgett ; introduction by Peter Read.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918, author.
- Series:
- New York Review Books poets
- New York Review Books Poets
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 251 pages ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- Bilingual edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English and French on facing pages.
- Summary:
- "Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire is the fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett's fifty-year engagement with the great French poet's life and work. Zone provides an exciting experience of the full range of Apollinaire's poetry, from his traditional lyric verse to his avant-garde calligrammatic pieces, from often-anthologized classics to hitherto-untranslated gems, from visionary poems of cosmic breadth to a poem about his shoes. This volume includes an introduction by Peter Read, the finest Apollinaire scholar in the English-speaking world, as well as a preface, helpful endnotes, and an annotated bibliography by Padgett. Each translation is accompanied by the original French text. There have been previous versions of Apollinaire, but this one is special, for it is not only a compact and judicious selection of the essential Apollinaire, it is also a feat of translation by an American poet about whom The Washington Post said, "No praise can be too high for Ron Padgett's translations.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Table of Contents
- (preliminary)
- Translator's Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Zone
- The Pont Mirabeau
- The Song of the Badly-Loved
- Poem Read at the Wedding of Andre Salmon
- Inscription for the Tomb of the Painter Henri Rousseau Customs Inspector
- Marizibill
- Annie
- The House of the Dead
- The White Snow
- Prayer
- [Untitled] ("Come along")
- La Grenouillere
- The Gypsy
- The Rediscovered Lock
- Hunting Horns
- The Lady
- The Traveler
- In La Sante
- Procession
- The Brasier
- The Autumn Crocuses
- The Women
- Vendemiaire
- Hotel
- Before the Movies
- Trip to Paris
- Advertisement for the House of Walk-Over
- To
- Nuptials
- The Musician of Saint Merri
- The Windows
- Tree
- A Phantom Made of Clouds
- Monday Rue Christine
- Across Europe
- It's Raining
- The Little Car
- There
- Postcard
- Festival
- 4
- The Nine Doors of Your Body
- The Seasons
- Shadow
- The Pretty Redhead
- The Calvaryman's Farewell
- Ocean of Earth
- Notes
- Recommended Reading.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918. Zone
- ISBN:
- 9781590179246
- 1590179242
- OCLC:
- 915135687
- Online:
- Cover image
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