The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry Lutteurs Dans le ciel des hommes, le pain des étoiles me sembla ténébreux et durci, mai ...

ANDRÉE CHÉDID Fighters In the sky of men the bread of stars seemed to me shadowy and hardened but in their narrow hands I read t ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry Épreuves du poète En ce monde Où la vie Se disloque Ou s’assemble Sans répit Le poète E ...

ANDRÉE CHÉDID of poetry. Principal works: Textes pour une figure, 1949; Terre et poésie, 1956; Contre-chant, 1969; Visage premie ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry Solde Pour Aimé Césaire J’ai l’impression d’être ridicule dans leurs souliers dans leur ...

Léon-Gontran Damas 1912–1978 guyana O ne of the three founders of the négritude movement of black intellec- tuals and writers, D ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry avec ces maux de tête qui cessent chaque fois que je salue quelqu’un J’ai l’impression ...

LÉON-GONTRAN DAMAS with these headaches that stop when I greet someone I feel ridiculous in their drawing rooms in their manners ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry tout le rideau du poème où Dieu que tu es belle mais longue à être nue Je parle dans to ...

RENÉ DAUMAL the whole curtain of the poem where God you are lovely but so long getting naked —mary ann caws René Daumal 1908–194 ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry Attention, le fil indéfini des siècles tient tout entier dans cette perle qui est ma fa ...

RENÉ DAUMAL Watch out, the indefinite thread of centuries is complete in this pearl which is my face and my end. —mary ann caws ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry O la grande apposition du monde O la grande apposition du monde un champ de roses près ...

Michel Deguy 1930– paris, france O ne of the younger French postwar poets, Deguy was influenced by his studies in philosophy and ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry L’homme et la femme échangent leur visage Le vin est lent sur le tableau A passer dans ...

MICHEL DEGUY The man and the woman exchange their faces The wine is slow on the painting To pass through its hourglass And the a ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry Ici souvent je suis And and they die and you die and we die and she/he/it dies and you ...

MICHEL DEGUY Here Often I Am And and they die and you die and we die and she / he / it dies and you again and I die Here often I ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry La Ballade En ce temps-là, façons de feinte et de tendresse, la peste ayant figure d’en ...

RENÉ DEPESTRE The Ballad In those days, ways of feinting and of tenderness, the plague having the face of boredom in the cities, ...