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Pierre Reverdy

The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth-century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime. Reverdy's poetry has exerted a special attraction on American poets, from Kenneth Rexroth to John Ashbery, and this new selection, featuring the work of fourteen distinguished translators, most of it appearing here for the first time, documents that ongoing relationship while offering readers the essential work of an extraordinary writer. Translated from the French by: John Ashbery Dan Bellm Mary Ann Caws Lydia Davis Marilyn Hacker Richard Howard Geoffrey O'Brien Frank O'Hara Ron Padgett Mark Polizzotti Kenneth Rexroth Richard Sieburth Patricia Terry Rosanna Warren.

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  • "" Pierre Reverdy, who was close to Picasso and Braque and was enormously admired by the surrealists, is one the greatest of modern French poets and one of the most elusive. His work is at once impersonal and intimate, crystalline and opaque, simplicity itself and mysterious as can be. Paul Auster has described his poems as combining an "intense inwardness with a proliferation of sensual data.... The poet seems to evaporate, to vanish into the haunted country he has created...as if Reverdy had emptied the space of the poem in order to let the reader inhabit it." Auster is only one of many American writers to be drawn to the mystery of Reverdy's unsettling world. There is also Frank O'Hara, who carried Reverdy's poems in his pocket and wrote (in lines that don't just mention but echo Reverdy): and surely we shall not continue to be unhappy we shall be happy but we shall continue to be ourselves everything continues to be possible Rene Char, Pierre Reverdy, Samuel Beckett it is possible isn't it I love Reverdy for saying yes, though I don't believe it. And John Ashbery has shown himself to be no less devoted than his friend O'Hara to Reverdy, whose poems he has translated throughout his career. The strength of this new selection of Reverdy's poetry, which includes both translations that have been specially commissioned for this volume along with a range of outstanding earlier ones, is not only to provide a sampling of Reverdy's finest work in all its variety but also to document the appeal it has had for so many of America's best writers and translators. Reverdy is represented by work early and late, from the pioneering Prose Poems of 1915 and Roof Slates of 1918 to his violently conceived and brutally worded, war-haunted poems of 1946 to 1948, entitled The Song of the Dead (originally illustrated by Picasso) to his final Freedom of the Seas of 1960. The twelve distinguished translators involved are John Ashbery, Dan Bellm, Mary Ann Caws, Lydia Davis, Marilyn Hacker, Richard Howard, Geoffrey O'Brien, Ron Padgett, Mark Polizzotti, Kenneth Rexroth, Richard Sieburth, and Rosanna Warren"--"
  • ""Pierre Reverdy is among the greatest of modern French poets, and certainly among the most elusive. His work is at once impersonal and intimate, crystalline and opaque, simple to the point of austerity. The landscape of his poetry is both instantly recognizable and, devoid of local specificity, imbued with an otherworldly strangeness. He is 'a secret poet for secret readers,' as Octavio Paz once described him, insisting on the necessity of parsing the silence, the empty spaces between what seems visible in the lines of his poems. Each feels like a fragment of a universe, and yet whole"--"
  • "The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth-century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime. Reverdy's poetry has exerted a special attraction on American poets, from Kenneth Rexroth to John Ashbery, and this new selection, featuring the work of fourteen distinguished translators, most of it appearing here for the first time, documents that ongoing relationship while offering readers the essential work of an extraordinary writer. Translated from the French by: John Ashbery Dan Bellm Mary Ann Caws Lydia Davis Marilyn Hacker Richard Howard Geoffrey O'Brien Frank O'Hara Ron Padgett Mark Polizzotti Kenneth Rexroth Richard Sieburth Patricia Terry Rosanna Warren."@en

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  • "Bibliographie"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
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  • "Translations"
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  • "Pierre Reverdy"
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  • "Pierre Reverdy; présentation"
  • "Pierre Reverdy. Présentation par Jean Rousselot, suivie d'un essai par Michel Manoll. Oeuvres choisies [par Jean Rousselot, Michel Manoll et Pierre Seghers,] fac-similés, portraits, dessins et documents, bibliographie"
  • "Pierre Reverdy. Présentation par Jean Rousselot, suivie d'un essai par Michel Manoll. Oeuvres choisies, fac-similés, portraits, dessins et documents, bibliographie"
  • "Pierre Reverdy : oeuvres choisies, fac-s., portr., dessins et documents, bibliographie"
  • "Pierre Reverdy oeuvres choisies, facs., partr., dessins et documents, bibliographie ; suivie d'un essai par Michel Manoll"
  • "Pierre Reverdy : oeuvres choisies, fac-similés, portraits. dessins et documents, bibliogra- phie"
  • "Pierre Reverdy : oeuvres choisies, fac-similés, portrait, dessins et documents, bibliographie"
  • "Pierre Reverdy : presentation par Jean Rousselot, suivie d'un essai par Michel Manoll"
  • "Pierre Reverdy : présentation"
  • "Pierre Reverdy : / prés. par Jean Rousselot, suivi d'un essai par Michel Manoll.Œuvres choisies, facs., portraits, dessins et documents, bibliogr"
  • "Pierre Reverdy : oeuvres choisies, fac-similes, portraits, dessins et documents, bibliographie"
  • "Pierre reverdy : presentation par jean rousselot, suivie d'un essai par michel manoll.Avec oeuvres choisies"
  • "Pierre Reverdy : oeuvres choisies, bibliographie"
  • "Pierre Reverdy : Présentation par Jean Rousselot suivie d'un essai par Michel Manoll. Oeuvres choisies fac-similés, portr., dessins et documents, bibliogr"
  • "Pierre Reverdy. Présentation par Jean Rousselot suivie d'un essai par Michel Manoll. Œuvres choisies, fac-similés, portraits, dessins et documents, bibliographie"@en
  • "Pierre Reverdy / Oeuvres choisies, fac-similés portraits, dessins et documents, bibliographie"
  • "Pierre Reverdy ; présentation par Jean Rousselot, suivie d'un essai par Michel Manoll. Oeuvres choisies, fac-similés, portraits, dessins et documents, bibliographie"
  • "Pierre Reverdy : œuvres choisies, fac-similés, portraits, dessins et documents, bibliographie"
  • "Pierre Reverdy. Oeuvres choisies, fac-similés, portraits, dessins et documents, bibliographie"
  • "Pierre Reverdy : oeuvres choisies, fac-similés, portraits, dessins et documents, bibliographie"

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