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If you can read French without hesitation, you don't need this book. However, if you read French with a certain nagging anxiety over your full comprehension, this bi-lingual anthology of modern French poetry will be a godsend. Translator Louis Simpson, a poet himself, has rendered the French poems with directness and simplicity, not intruding any particular style yet achieving sufficient elegance to be readable as poetic prose.

The poets included as "modern" begin with Hugo and Nerval. Baudelaire, Verlaine, Apollinaire, Breton, Eluard, and other well-known poets are included, along with lesser known writers such as Pierre Reverdy, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, and Benjamin Peret.

An excellent tool for learning French as well as an introduction to the delights of French poetry! ... Read more

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson has been a leading figure in American letters for more than half a century. Born in 1923 in Jamaica, the son of a lawyer of Scottish descent and a Russian mother, he emigrated to America at the age of 17. Voices in the Distance is the first selection of his poetry to be published in Britain for over 25 years, drawing on 18 collections, from The Arrivistes (1949) to his latest book, Struggling Times, which he published last year at the age of 86. Both timely and personal, Louis Simpson's poetry dramatises his continuing quarrel with suburban America, as well as his concerns about the direction of an American society struggling to retain its integrity in the midst of widespread challenges and worldwide strife. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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A revealing collection of Louis Simpson's autobiographical reflections and critical essays
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