02 Not since the publication of Paul Auster’s The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry in the English-speaking world. Here for the first time is a comprehensive bilingual representation of French poetic achievement in the twentieth century, from the turn-of-the-century poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire to the high modernist art of Samuel Beckett to the contemporary verse of scourge Michel Houellebecq. Many of the English translations (on facing pages) are justly celebrated, composed by eminent figures such as T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and John Ashbery; many others are new and have been commissioned for this book.Distinguished scholar and editor Mary Ann Caws has chosen work by more than 100 poets. Her deliberately extensive, international selection includes work by Francophone poets, by writers better known for accomplishments in other genres (novelists, songwriters, performance artists), and by many more female poets than have typically been represented in past anthologies of modern French poetry. The editor has opted for a chronological organization that highlights six crucial “pressure points” in modern French poetry. Accompanying the selections are a general introduction, informative essays on each period, and short biographical notes—all prepared by the editor.“A monumental work that will serve as a point of reference for contemporary French studies for many years to come. Reaching beyond canonical works and authors, it runs through culture at large with unsurpassed force and elegance. It will change the course of French studies.”—Tom Conley, Harvard University Not since the publication of Paul Auster’s The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry in the English-speaking world. Here for the first time is a comprehensive bilingual representation of French poetic achievement in the twentieth century, from the turn-of-the-century poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire to the high modernist art of Samuel Beckett to the contemporary verse of scourge Michel Houellebecq. Many of the English translations (on facing pages) are justly celebrated, composed by eminent figures such as T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and John Ashbery; many others are new and have been commissioned for this book.Distinguished scholar and editor Mary Ann Caws has chosen work by more than 100 poets. Her deliberately extensive, international selection includes work by Francophone poets, by writers better known for accomplishments in other genres (novelists, songwriters, performance artists), and by many more female poets than have typically been represented in past anthologies of modern French poetry. The editor has opted for a chronological organization that highlights six crucial “pressure points” in modern French poetry. Accompanying the selections are a general introduction, informative essays on each period, and short biographical notes—all prepared by the editor.“A monumental work that will serve as a point of reference for contemporary French studies for many years to come. Reaching beyond canonical works and authors, it runs through culture at large with unsurpassed force and elegance. It will change the course of French studies.”—Tom Conley, Harvard University

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Yale anthology of 20th-century French poetry

edited by Mary Ann Caws

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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United States, United States of America

New Haven, Connecticut, 2004

1st, First Edition, US, 2004

First Editiion, 2004

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English and French on facing pages.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [613]-615) and indexes.

Contents 8
Editor’s Note 24
Introduction by Mary Ann Caws 26
1. 1897–1915: Symbolism, Post-Symbolism,Cubism, Simultanism 46
Guillaume Apollinaire 50
Blaise Cendrars 68
Paul Claudel 82
Jean Cocteau 88
Léon-Paul Fargue 90
Max Jacob 92
Pierre-Jean Jouve 98
Valéry Larbaud 102
Saint-John Perse 108
Pablo Picasso 112
Catherine Pozzi 114
Pierre Reverdy 118
Saint-Pol Roux 124
Victor Segalen 128
Jules Supervielle 134
Paul Valéry 138
Renée Vivien 152
2. 1916–1930: Dada and the Heroic Period of Surrealism 156
Louis Aragon 160
Antonin Artaud 168
Georges Bataille 172
Samuel Beckett 178
André Breton 182
Claude Cahun 196
Malcolm de Chazal 202
Robert Desnos 208
Paul Éluard 218
Jean Follain 226
Greta Knutson 230
Michel Leiris 232
Henri Michaux 236
Benjamin Péret 244
Francis Ponge 250
Jacques Prévert 258
Raymond Queneau 262
Léopold Sédar Senghor 268
Philippe Soupault 272
Jean Tardieu 278
Tristan Tzara 284
Marguerite Yourcenar 300
3. 1931–1945: Prewar and War Poetry 304
Claude de Burine 308
Aimé Césaire 312
René Char 316
Andrée Chédid 322
Léon-Gontran Damas 326
Renè Daumal 330
Michel Deguy 334
René Depestre 340
Mohammed Dib 344
Louis-René des Forêts 348
André Frénaud 354
Jean Grosjean 356
Eugène Guillevic 360
Anne Hébert 366
Radovan Ivsic 370
Edmond Jabès 374
Pierre-Albert Jourdan 382
Gherasim Luca 384
Dora Maar 390
Meret Oppenheim 398
Joyce Mansour 394
Valentine Penrose 400
Gisèle Prassinos 404
Boris Vian 406
4. 1946–1966: The Death of André Breton, theBeginning of L’Éphémère 410
Yves Bonnefoy 414
André du Bouchet 420
Bernard Collin 424
Jacques Dupin 426
Jacques Garelli 436
Lorand Gaspar 438
Édouard Glissant 440
Philippe Jaccottet 446
Claire Lejeune 454
Claire Malroux 458
Robert Marteau 462
Abdelwahab Meddeb 462
Gaston Miron 464
Bernard Noël 468
Anne Perrier 472
Anne Portugal 472
Jacques Réda 478
Jude Stéfan 480
Salah Stétié 484
5. 1967–1980: The Explosion of theNext Generation 488
Anne-Marie Albiach 492
Marie-Claire Bancquart 496
Silvia Baron Supervielle 500
Martine Broda 504
Nicole Brossard 507
Danielle Collobert 510
Claude Esteban 510
Marie Étienne 514
Dominique Fourcade 518
Michelle Grangaud 522
Emmanuel Hocquard 530
Hédi Kaddour 536
Vénus Khoury-Ghata 540
Abdellatif Laâbi 540
Annie Le Brun 544
Marcelin Pleynet 550
Jacqueline Risset 550
Jacques Roubaud 554
Paul de Roux 566
Claude Royet-Journoud 568
Habib Tengour 570
Franck Venaille 582
6. 1981–2002: Young Poetry at the End of theMillennium 586
Pierre Alféri 590
Tahar Bekri 596
Olivier Cadiot 600
Jean Frémon 608
Liliane Giraudon 613
Guy Giraudon 616
Michel Houellebecq 620
Franck André Jamme 622
Jean-Michel Maulpoix 628
Robert Melançon 632
Pascalle Monnier 635
Nathalie Quintane 640
Valérie-Catherine Richez 642
Amina Saïd 644
Christophe Tarkos 650
André Velter 652
Select Bibliography 658
Acknowledgments 662
Index of Poets 684
Index of Titles 686
Index of Translators 690

Not since the publication of Paul Auster's The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry in the English-speaking world. Here for the first time is a comprehensive bilingual representation of French poetic achievement in the twentieth century, from the turn-of-the-century poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire to the high modernist art of Samuel Beckett to the contemporary verse of scourge Michel Houellebecq. Many of the English translations (on facing pages) are justly celebrated, composed by eminent figures such as T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and John Ashbery; many others are new and have been commissioned for this book. Distinguished scholar and editor Mary Ann Caws has chosen work by more than 100 poets. Her deliberately extensive, international selection includes work by Francophone poets, by writers better known for accomplishments in other genres (novelists, songwriters, performance artists), and by many more female poets than have typically been represented in past anthologies of modern French poetry. The editor has opted for a chronological organization that highlights six crucial "pressure points" in modern French poetry. Accompanying the selections are a general introduction, informative essays on each period, and short biographical notes --all prepared by the editor. "A monumental work that will serve as a point of reference for contemporary French studies for many years to come. Reaching beyond canonical works and authors, it runs through culture at large with unsurpassed force and elegance. It will change the course of French studies."--Tom Conley, Harvard University

Not since the publication of Paul Auster's The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry in the English-speaking world. Here for the first time is a comprehensive bilingual representation of French poetic achievement in the twentieth century, from the turn-of-the-century poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire to the high modernist art of Samuel Beckett to the contemporary verse of scourge Michel Houellebecq. Many of the English translations (facing pages) are justly celebrated, composed by eminent figures such as T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and John Ashbery; many others are new and have been commissioned for this book. Distinguished scholar and editor Mary Ann Caws has chosen work by more than 100 poets. Her deliberately extensive, international selection includes work by Francophone poets, by writers better known for accomplishments in other genres (novelists, songwriters, performance artists), and by many more female poets than have been typically represented in past anthologies of modern French poetry. The editor has opted for a chronological organization that highlights six crucial pressure points in modern French poetry. Accompanying the selections are a general introduction, informative essays on each period, and short biographical notes—all prepared by the editor.

Not since the publication of Paul Auster's The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry in the English-speaking world. Here for the first time is a comprehensive bilingual representation of French poetic achievement in the twentieth century, from the turn-of-the-century poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire to the high modernist art of Samuel Beckett to the contemporary verse of scourge Michel Houellebecq. Many of the English translations (on facing pages) are justly celebrated, composed by eminent figures such as T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and John Ashbery; many others are new and have been commissioned for this book. Distinguished scholar and editor Mary Ann Caws has chosen work by more than 100 poets. Her deliberately extensive, international selection includes work by Francophone poets, by writers better known for accomplishments in other genres (novelists, songwriters, performance artists), and by many more female poets than have typically been represented in past anthologies of modern French poetry. The editor has opted for a chronological organisation that highlights six crucial pressur

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