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French poetry

Poetry Review: “Outside” — Poetry and Prose of French Writer André du Bouchet.

Take the poems slowly, enjoy the Cage-y silences, the concentrated words as they appear.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Theater, Uncategorized, Video Games, Visual Arts, Webmaster News, World Books Tagged: André du Bouchet, Eric Fishman, French poetry, Hoyt Rogers, Outside

Poetry Review: Pierre Reverdy’s “Song of the Dead” — Imprisoned in Life

Despite one’s aspirations to another kind of reality, for Pierre Reverdy one is forced to return to one’s fetters.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Black Square Editions, Dan Bellm, French poetry, Pierre, Reverdy, The Song of the Dead

Poetry Review: Rediscovering Aimé Césaire — The Politics and Poetics of Negritude.

Valuable new translations of Aimé Césaire suggest that we have overemphasized the political dimension of his poetry and overlooked other, purely literary, qualities.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: A. James Arnold, Aimé Césaire, Anna Bostock, Annette Smith, Archipelago-Books, Clayton Eshleman, Dominic Thomas, French poetry, John Berger, Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Other Poems, Martinique, Negritude, Northwestern University Press, Return to My Native Land, Solar Throat Slashed, Solar Throat Slashed : The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition, The Original 1939 “Notebook of a Return to the Native Land”, translation, Wesleyan University Press

Poetry Review: “The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett” — Castings

Have we been missing a major poet while we celebrated a great dramatist and the most influential fiction writer of the second half of the twentieth century?

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: English poetry, French poetry, Robert Scanlan, samuel-beckett, The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett, translations

Book Review: In Quest of the Elemental — André du Bouchet’s “Openwork”

André du Bouchet writes the kind of poetry that other poets ponder, perhaps resist or even reject for a while, yet inevitably return to study even if (or because) their own poetics are starkly dissimilar to his.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: André du Bouchet, French poetry, Openwork, translation

Book Review: The Poetry of Pierre Reverdy — The Search for Purity

Pierre Reverdy’s poetry that is suspicious of the deceiving beauty of words, hence its pared-down, elemental, stylistic qualities.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: French poetry, John Ashbery, Mary Ann Caws, New York Review Books, Pierre Reverdy

Book Review: Yves Bonnefoy’s Meditation on Poetry — Heady But Essential

Yves Bonnefoy’s book is, fundamentally, a spiritual autobiography; yet it draws extensively on the outside world and ponders how it can be described in writing or depicted in painting.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: French poetry, The Arrière-pays, translation, Yves Bonnefoy

Poetry Review: A Provocative Step Out of the Shadows — Poet Anna de Noailles

Literary history credits Rainer Maria Rilke with establishing European poetry’s seminal concern with the duality between inner and outer worlds. Could it be that Comtesse Anna de Noailles was his precursor in this regard? Translator Norman Shapiro and Black Widow Press should be thanked for bringing her back into the discussion.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: A Life of Poems Poems of a Life, Black Widow Press, Comtesse Anna de Noailles, French poetry, Norman-Shapiro, translation

Poetry Review: Yves Bonnefoy — A Provocative “Second Simplicity”

This handsome edition of Yves Bonnefoy’s recent poetry and prose in English translation is a stunning presentation of a major poet.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: 1991-2011, french, French poetry, Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, translation, Yves Bonnefoy

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