The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

part 5. 1967–1980: the explosion of the next generation la passiflore et les horloges tricotèrent des nuits plus étroites Un ven ...

ABDELLATIF LAÂBI expected and the clocks knit narrower nights. A yellow wind dyed the forests’ façades the trees stopped weeping ...

part 5. 1967–1980: the explosion of the next generation doucement telle une plume d’oiseau Le goût de l’enfance me monte à la bo ...

ANNIE LE BRUN gently like a bird’s feather The taste of childhood rises to my mouth —pierre joris Tomorrow Will Be the Same Day ...

part 5. 1967–1980: the explosion of the next generation Des rites Le lieu et la formule reculent avec l’écho à la reconquête des ...

ANNIE LE BRUN realism and the marquis de Sade’s writings, recognizing in both a concern with the liberation of desire and primit ...

part 5. 1967–1980: the explosion of the next generation Des fêtes Mes dents ont arraché des cubes de rire, des sorties d’école d ...

ANNIE LE BRUN Festivals My teeth have ripped out cubes of laughter, school-leavings of laughter, bot- tles of laughter, trucks o ...

part 5. 1967–1980: the explosion of the next generation Dans la lumière du jour Je suis claire dit-elle. Je suis claire comme le ...

Marcelin Pleynet 1933– lyon, france P leynet is a historian, essayist, art critic, and prolific poet. Along with Philippe Soller ...

part 5. 1967–1980: the explosion of the next generation M. S. 1544* A contempler Pour être tout mais quand au but — que ceux que ...

Jacqueline Risset 1936– besançon, france A poet and translator, Risset is best known for her French translations of Dante’s work ...

part 5. 1967–1980: the explosion of the next generation tu vois — que voir — ainsi dit-il de qui — et de qui l’œil — tant qu’aut ...

JACQUES ROUBAUD you see — that seeing — as thus he says of whom — and of whom the eye — so long as no other — will thus be unabl ...

part 5. 1967–1980: the explosion of the next generation Méditation du 8/5/85 Soir après soir Le vecteur de lumière traverse La m ...

JACQUES ROUBAUD Meditation of 8/5/85 Evening after evening A vector of light crosses This same windowpane And fades Night Carrie ...

part 5. 1967–1980: the explosion of the next generation ces ongles. puisqu’ils ne débordent pas dont les pentes à la lumière s’a ...

JACQUES ROUBAUD those nails. as they do not reach over which silent slopes pairing with the light into that which must be named ...

part 5. 1967–1980: the explosion of the next generation derrière la verdure dommagée. le cercle en bout de musique. Il pleut À C ...

JACQUES ROUBAUD behind grass damaged. a circle at the end of music. —jacques roubaud It Is Raining To Charlotte Borel, on the oc ...