Selected Poems

Author: Francis Ponge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
"Through translations by two major contemporary poets and a scholar intimate with the Ponge canon, this volume offers selections of mostly earlier poetry - Le parti pris des choses, Pieces, Proemes, and Nouveau nouveau recueil - as representative of the strongest work of this modern French master."--Jacket

Soap

Author: Francis Ponge
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804729550
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
In this work, begun during the German occupation, the eminent French poet and philosopher began to turn away from the small, perfect poem toward a much more open form, a kind of prose poem that recounted its own process of coming into being along with the final result.

The Nature of Things

Author: Francis Ponge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Poetry. Translated from the French by Lee Fahnestock. First published in 1942 and considered the keystone of Francis Ponge's work, Le parti pris de choses appears here in its entirety. It reveals his preoccupation with nature and its metaphoric transformation through the creative ambiguity of language. "My immediate reaction to Lee Fahnenstock's translation was: this must certainly be 'Ponge's voice in English'...[She] gives us his tones, rhythms, humor...[and] maneuvers his word play with respect and unostentatious discretion"--Barbara Wright, translator of Queneau, Pinget, Sarraute.

Education by Stone

Author: Joao Cabral De Melo Neto
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744550
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Imagine making poems the way an architect designs buildings or an engineer builds bridges. Such was the ambition of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Though a great admirer of the thing-rich poetries of Francis Ponge and of Marianne Moore, what interested him even more, as he remarked in his acceptance speech for the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, was "the exploration of the materiality of words," the "rigorous construction of (. . .) lucid objects of language." His poetry, hard as stone and light as air, is like no other.

Mute Objects of Expression

Author: Francis Ponge
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744496
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Francis Ponge boldly proclaims his poetic goal in Mute Objects of Expression: "To accept the challenge that objects offer to language." These objects—less chosen than received spontaneously—are perceived with inimitable Pongean humor and rendered into glimmering still lifes. He gives voice to the often unnoticed aspects of natural objects and beings. Shunning familiar poetic modes, Ponge forges new visions, images drawn from nature, from mythology and the classics. In this volume, springing from the Loire countryside in the early 1940s, Ponge’s "prôems" recall the violent perfume of the mimosa, the cries of carnations, and the flirtations of wasps. From a small note- book, his sole supply of paper withinthe wartime deprivations, he composes repeated drafts of an innovative form combining poetry with analysis and impish play. Despite the demoralizing clouds of Occupation, Ponge wrests a soaring paean to his beloved sliver of Provence.

Ten Poems of Francis Ponge

Author: Francis Ponge
Publisher: Riverview, N.B. : Owls Head Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description

The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

Author: Yehuda Amichai
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520275837
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
"Yehuda Amichai's splendid poems, refined and cast in the desperate foundries of the Middle East, where life and faith are always at stake, exhibit a majestic and Biblical range of the topography of the soul."—Anthony Hecht

A Book of Luminous Things

Author: Czesław Miłosz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156005746
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz personal selection of 300 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages and around the world.

The Voice of Things

Author: Francis Ponge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description

Where X Marks the Spot

Author: Bill Zavatsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931236676
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Poetry. "`Who touches this book, touches a man,' said Whitman, and that is certainly the case with this astounding volume by Bill Zavatsky, who generously imparts his whole life and soul in these vital, hilarious, frank, eloquent, deeply satisfying works. Poet of the white working class, of jazz gigs and strip clubs, marriage, screw-ups and divorce, of obstinately teaching kids to write, chronicler of city life on the fly, bard of the splendors and miseries of the dating scene, Zavatsky risks all, holds nothing back. These remarkable poems have plenty of heart, muscle and mind: they refuse easy bondings, they test the limits of their own compassion. So much contemporary poetry seems tame, obscure or overly fussy compared to the robust humanity, independence and (finally, yes) wisdom of this inimitable voice" --Phillip Lopate.