Book record
The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry
Anthology
The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry is an anthology of French poetry, translated by Mary Ann Caws, published by Yale University Press. It is an anthology of twentieth-century French poetry that offers a broad map of modern lyric experiment. As an anthology, it is especially useful because French poetry of this period keeps changing its costume: symbolist afterlives, surrealist rupture, philosophical pressure, and lyric reinvention. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Language
- French