Author: Francis PongePublisher:
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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
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.
Author: Francis PongeThe 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 Table
Author: Francis PongePublisher:
ISBN: 9781939663245
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
"Written from 1967 to 1973 over a series of early mornings in seclusion in his country home, The Table offers a final chapter in Francis Ponge's interrogation of the unassuming objects in his life: in this case, the table upon which he wrote. In his effort to get at the presence lying beneath his elbow, Ponge charts out a space of silent consolation that lies beyond (and challenges) scientific objectivity and poetic transport. This is one of Ponge's most personal, overlooked, and--because it was the project he was working on when he died--his least processed works. It reveals the personal struggle Ponge engaged in throughout all of his writing, a hesitant uncertainty he usually pared away from his published texts that is at touching opposition to the manufactured, "durable mother" of the table on and of which he here writes."--Amazon.com.
Author: Francis Ponge
Author: Czesław Miłosz