Pierre Reverdy by Pierre Reverdy and translated by John Ashbery

This is poetry from France.

Pierre Reverdy by Pierre Reverdy translated by John Ashbery is published by NYRB Poets. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781590176795E12.

Pierre Reverdy, translated from the French by John Ashbery, brings Pierre Reverdy’s French-language work into English through NYRB Poets. Published in 2013, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Reverdy’s poems, translated here by John Ashbery, arrive through a lineage of modernist compression, image, fracture, and quiet estrangement. Biography and context may deepen the experience, but they do not need to stand in the doorway. Let the poem arrive first, then let the questions follow. Translation here becomes less a matter of loss than of new access: a voice from France finding another set of nerves in English.

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