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The King In Yellow : A New Translation

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The original French Text of the Play Le Roi en Jaune (1893) together with a new English translation, introduction and essays. ... Read more

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Learn French fast: Apprenez le Français rapidement.As you may already know, French is not an easy-to-learn language.The best way to try to master French is to learn by heart its most popular idiomatic expressions.In this book, you will find the corresponding English version below every French "expression idiomatique". This will help you catch its full meaning in no time.Learn 200 French idioms, ... Read more

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Learn French fast: Apprenez le Français rapidement.As you may already know, French is not an easy-to-learn language.The best way to try to master French is to learn by heart its most popular idiomatic expressions.In this book, you will find the corresponding English version below every French "expression idiomatique". This will help you catch its full meaning in no time.Learn 200 French idioms,
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A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat

by Arthur Rimbaud ...

Translated by Louise Varèse ...

A reissue of Rimbaud’s highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin lustig.New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud’s A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat — a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from “the examination of his own depths. ... Read more

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A reissue of Rimbaud’s highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin lustig.New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud’s A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat — a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from “the examination of his own depths.
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A Season in Hell

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by Arthur Rimbaud ...

Translated by Jeremy Denbow ...

Arthur Rimbaud wrote a few pieces that set French poetry aghast around 1873. He'd taken to wandering Europe in lieu of university. His teachers hated him. There was a sort of subtle but perverse defiance to his work. He would create new words to describe the world around him, and produced pages of rhyming Latin verse in his mathematics class while taking notes. For a time he produced Latin ... Read more

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Arthur Rimbaud wrote a few pieces that set French poetry aghast around 1873. He'd taken to wandering Europe in lieu of university. His teachers hated him. There was a sort of subtle but perverse defiance to his work. He would create new words to describe the world around him, and produced pages of rhyming Latin verse in his mathematics class while taking notes. For a time he produced Latin
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A Season in Hell & Illuminations

by Arthur Rimbaud ...

Translated by Wyatt Mason ...

Series series Modern Library Classics
Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Wyatt Mason“The definitive translation for our time.”–Edward HirschFrom Dante’s Inferno to Sartre’s No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell–written when the poet was nineteen–provides an astonishing example of the grapple with self.As a companion to ... Read more

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Translated by Donald Revell ...

Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness. Champion of "cubism", Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) fashions in verse the sonic equivalent of what Picasso accomplishes in his cubist works: simultaneity. Apollinaire has been so influential that without him there would have been no ... Read more

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The Flowers of Evil

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by Charles Baudelaire, Daniel Handler ...

Translated by Aaron Poochigian ...

On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry.Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern ... Read more

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Collected Poems and Other Verse

by E.H. Blackmore, A. M. Blackmore, Stéphane Mallarmé ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
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New Impressions of Africa

by Raymond Roussel ...

Translated by Mark Ford ...

Series series Facing Pages
A new translation of a masterpiece of modernist poetryPoet, novelist, playwright, and chess enthusiast, Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) was one of the French belle époque's most compelling literary figures. During his lifetime, Roussel's work was vociferously championed by the surrealists, but never achieved the widespread acclaim for which he yearned. New Impressions of Africa is undoubtedly Roussel ... Read more

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Pierre Reverdy

by Pierre Reverdy ...

Translated by John Ashbery, Kenneth Rexroth, Lydia Davis ...

Series series NYRB Poets
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by Rene Char ...

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