Description
The first volume of a momentous two-volume gathering of translations by America’s greatest living poet represents Ashbery’s lifelong engagement with French poetry. His poetry translations include Martory, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Arthur Cravan and Yves Bonnefoy. The development of modern French poetry – by way of the movements of Romanticism, Symbolism, Dadaism and Surrealism – emerges through Ashbery’s chronology.
