The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

xx contents L’Automne précéda l’été / Autumn Preceded Summer (marilyn hacker) 494 Abdellatif Laâbi Le Portrait du père / The Por ...

contents xxi Franck Venaille Éloge de Robert Desnos / In Praise of Robert Desnos (mary ann caws) 536 Maintenant / Now They Tell ...

xxii contents La Récitation de l’oubli / The Recitation of Forgetting (john ashbery) 580 Tu viens souvent / Often You Come (mary ...

Editor’s Note Compiling a major volume such as this one is, of necessity, a highly subjective process. In considering the many p ...

xxiv editor’s note The editor is enormously grateful for help received from so many quarters. This publication would never have ...

Introduction The poem is what has neither name, nor rest, nor place, nor dwelling: a fissure mov- ing towards the work. jacques ...

xxvi introduction was to certain works and artists and whose criticism and scholarship would invariably foreground that commitme ...

introduction xxvii resting poetic work. The Francophone selections in this volume are from African, Canadian, and West Indian so ...

xxviii introduction In each of the countries where colonial rule was overthrown, indepen- dence brought its own problems. After ...

introduction xxix Wishing, above all else, to underscore the arbitrary nature of any such divisions, however, I think it valuabl ...

xxx introduction and Lyn Hejinian. That this tradition spans so many epochs in twentieth- century poetry gives encouragement to ...

introduction xxxi lipogrammatic novel in which the letter e never appears. Instead of reduc- ing creative possibilities, as such ...

xxxii introduction In this rewritten structure—new, alarming, and fascinating—all the possi- bilities of verse and thought are c ...

introduction xxxiii ter’s collages, made from findings in the street, and to his Merz work (a scrap from the noun Kommerz, or co ...

xxxiv introduction And witness, too, the advent of the Spatialist Poetry of the French poet Henri Chopin and like-minded writers ...

introduction xxxv by what is carried in it. Walk poems, perhaps above all others, are modi- fied by what the speaker carries or ...

xxxvi introduction The general temper of the French modernist poet is tinged with the kind of visionary exaltation and despair o ...

introduction xxxvii One of the main sources of poetic excitement in the early part of the century was the cult of the primitive. ...

xxxviii introduction trances, and a number of liberating techniques to overthrow the rational reserve that imprisoned the mind a ...

introduction xxxix weapon. Breton and several others took refuge in Marseilles at the Bel Air mansion, owned by the American Jan ...