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"Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, which in successive editions contained all of his published poems, has for over a hundred years now opened new vistas for man's imagination and quickened the sensibilities of poets everywhere. The greatest French Poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modern poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable."
"Selected Flowers of Evil contains 53 poems...
2) Home
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Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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"Twenty-seven poems look inside the dwellings of animals like elf owls, cathedral termites, Sumatran orangutans, and foam-nest tree frogs"--
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English
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This uncompleted suite of poems by French poet Arthur Rimbaud was first published serially in the Paris literary review magazine "La Vogue." The magazine published part of "Illuminations" from May to June 1886. Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's lover, suggested the publication of these poems, written between 1873 and 1875, in book form. All forty-two of the poems generally considered as part of "Illuminations" are collected together here in this edition. Of...
4) Shadow
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English
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Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
It seems astonishing that some fifty years following the founding and first flourishings of the Surrealist movement, and despite the publication of anthologies such as this in many countries, throughout the world, there should not until now have been a single anthology in English of its poets. For the most part, readers here have had to find the major Surrealist poets embedded in the few existing anthologies of miscellaneous twentieth-century French...
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Publisher
Humanoids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"An exercise in imagination, Jodorowsky's Twisted Tales is the product of an artistic challenge born from a mutual love of word and image: Jodorowsky would write dozens of tales of beauty and brutality, wisdom and humour, and Boucq would expound upon and direct them through his illustrations. The resulting dialogue is a truly original piece of work - where art is as entwined in the writing, as lyrics in music."--Provided by publisher.
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Enitharmon Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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Français
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Since the 1960s, poetry in French has been understood in terms of two competing approaches: searching for 'presence' on the one hand, 'littéralité' -- refiguring the everyday -- on the other. Contemporary forms of both are found in this anthology, from the 'new lyricism' of Bonhomme and Maulpoix to the refracted politics of 'post-poetry' in Tarkos and Gleize. The dichotomy, however, quickly breaks down and many poets refuse to be categorised in...
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