acknowledgments
Bernard Collin
‘‘Perpétuel voyez physique,’’ 17/5, from Perpétuel voyez physique, ∫ Éditions Ivrea, 1996.
Reprinted by permission of Éditions Ivrea.
‘‘Perpetual Look Physics,’’ 17/5, trans. by Mary Ann Caws. Printed by permission of
Mary Ann Caws.
Danielle Collobert
‘‘Je temps de quoi,’’ ‘‘Dont le soleil,’’ from Survie, ∫ Orange Export, Ltd., 1978. Re-
printed from Orange Export, Ltd.
‘‘I Time of What,’’ ‘‘For Which the Sun,’’ trans. by Michael Tweed. Printed by permis-
sion of Michael Tweed.
Léon-Gontran Damas
‘‘Solde,’’ ‘‘Par la fenêtre... ,’’ from Névralgies, ∫ Éditions Gallimard, 1972. Reprinted by
permission of Éditions Gallimard.
‘‘On Sale,’’ ‘‘Through the Half-Opened Window,’’ trans. by Mary Ann Caws. Printed by
permission of Mary Ann Caws.
René Daumal
‘‘Je parle dans tous les âges,’’ from Anthologie de la poésie française du XXe siècle,
∫ Éditions Gallimard, 2000; ‘‘Le Mot et la mouche,’’ from Le Contre-ciel, ∫ Éditions
Gallimard, 2000. Reprinted by permission of Éditions Gallimard.
‘‘I Speak in All Ages,’’ trans. by Mary Ann Caws. Printed by permission of Mary Ann
Caws. ‘‘Poetry and Thought,’’ trans. by Michael Wood, from The Random House Book of
Twentieth Century French Poetry, ∫ Random House Inc., 1982. Reprinted by permission of
Michael Wood.
Michel Deguy
‘‘O la grande apposition du monde,’’ from Poèmes de la presqu-île, ∫ Éditions Gal-
limard, 1962; ‘‘Quai gris,’’ from Oui dire, ∫ Éditions Gallimard, 1966; ‘‘Qui quoi,’’ ‘‘Le
Mur... ,’’ ‘‘Ici souvent je suis,’’ from Tombeau de Du Bellay, ∫ Éditions Gallimard, 1973;
‘‘La Ballade,’’ from Donnant donnant, ∫ Éditions Gallimard, 1981. Reprinted by permis-
sion of Éditions Gallimard.
‘‘O Great Apposition of the World,’’ ‘‘Grey Pier,’’ ‘‘Who What,’’ ‘‘The Wall... ,’’ ‘‘Here
Often I Am,’’ ‘‘The Ballad,’’ trans. by Clayton Eshleman, from Given, Giving, ∫ University
of California Press, 1984. Reprinted by permission of University of California Press.
René Depestre
‘‘Romancero d’une petite lampe,’’ from Un arc-en-ciel pour l’Occident chrétien, ∫
L’Harmattan, 1967. Reprinted by permission of L’Harmattan.
‘‘Ballad of a Little Lamp,’’ trans. by Joan Dayan, from A Rainbow for the Christian West,
∫ University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. Reprinted by permission of University of
Massachusetts Press.