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French Love Poems

French Love Poems

Current price: $11.95
Publication Date: June 28th, 2016
Publisher:
New Directions
ISBN:
9780811225595
Pages:
100
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Description

Inspired by the great tradition of French love poetry, New Directions presents a beautiful, small gift edition, dedicated to what makes the world go round.

Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Labé and Maurice Sceve to the piercing lyricism of the Romantics and the dreamlike compositions of the Surrealists, French Love Poems is the perfect, seductive gift for anyone who makes your heart flutter.

This collection includes poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Cahun, René Char, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Paul Éluard, Louise Labé, Stéphane Mallarmé, Anna de Noailles, Joyce Mansour, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, and many others; as well as translations by Mary Ann Caws, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertov, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, Frederick Seidel, Richard Sieburth, and William Carlos Williams.

About the Author

Tynan Kogane is an editor at New Directions.

Praise for French Love Poems

Bring glory to the
love-drunk folks at home!
— Charles Baudelaire

The only reality is Beauty
and its only perfect expression is Poetry. All the rest is a lie.
— Stéphane Mallarmé