Author: Francis PongePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Selected Poems
Author: Francis PongePublisher:
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
Selected Poems
Author: Francis PongePublisher:
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 PongePublisher: 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.
Education by Stone
Author: Joao Cabral De Melo NetoPublisher: 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 PongePublisher: 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.
The Nature of Things
Author: Francis PongePublisher:
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.
Author: Francis PongeThe Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai
Author: Yehuda AmichaiPublisher: 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
Author: Francis Ponge