The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos (Modern European Poetry Series) [Hardcover]

William Kulik (Author), Carolyn Forche (Translator)

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About Oneself
Across The Bridge
Ancient Clamor
Announcement
Arbitrary Fate
Ars Poetica
As Beautiful As You Are
At Dawn
At Daybreak
At Five O'clock
Awakenings
The Bottle In The River
Brief Songs
But I Was Not Understood
Cascade
The Closed Room
Coming Down Hillsides In Spring
Coming Harvests
Comme
Comrades
Devil Feast
Don Juan's City
Door To The Second Infinity
Door To The Second Infinity
A Dream In A Cellar
Dying
Earth
Ebony Life
Encounters
Epitaph
Evening
Fire
Four Seasons
From The Marble Rose To The Iron Rose
The Great Days Of The Poet
Hello From The Valley
Hello, Goodbye
Homicidal Air
I've Dreamed Of You So Much
Idee Fixe
Identy Of Images
If You Only Knew
If, Like The Winds Drawn On The Compass Face
In My Glass
Intersection
June 10, 1936
The Legacy
Let's Be Serious
Literature
Long Long Ago
Lou The Shrk Lady
Low Tide
Lying Down
Men
Men On Earth
Mermaid
Mid-way
The Mirror And The World
The Morning Star
My Baby
My Love Speak To Me
My Mermaid
Never Anyone But You
The Night Watchman Of Pont-au-change
Nightfall
Nights
No, Love Is Not Dead
O Youth
Of The Flower Of Love And The Wandering Horses
Once There Was A Leaf
The Ox And The Rose
The Promontory
The Prophecy
The River With Water Lilies
Rope
The Rose By The Seine
The Satyr
Seasons
The Second Song Of The Marigold (the Flower Of Worry)
The Secret
Sky Song
Sleep Spaces
Soil Of Compiegne
Song For The Beautiful Season
Song Of Taboo
Song Of The Road
Sorrows Of Love
Spring
Startled
The Suicide Of Night
Summer Dusk
The Sun's Despair
Swim
A Tale
Tale Of A Bear
Tale Of A Camel
Then The Trumpet
This Beauty Here
This Heart That Hated War
Three Stars
Time Of The Dungeons
To Conquer The Day, To Conquer The Night
To The Ends Of The Earth
To The Headless
Today I Took A Walk
Tomorrow
Tour Of The Tomb
Under Cover Of Night
Verse On The Butcher
Verse On The Glass Of Wine
Verse On The Portes Saint-martin And Saint-denis
Verse On The Rue De Bagnolet
Verse On The Summertime Sidewalk
Verses On Rue Saint-martin
The Voice Of Robert Desnos
The Way A Hand At The Moment Of Death
We'll Laugh About It
What Do You Want Me To Say
Window
With Heart Of Oak
Words From The Rocks
You Take The First Street To The Right
Your Lovers And Mistresses
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Product Details

• Hardcover: 181 pages
• Publisher: Ecco Pr; 1st edition (May 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880012617
• ISBN-13: 978-0880012614
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,312,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable, March 4, 1998

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This review is from: The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos (Modern European Poetry Series) (Hardcover)

A great collection of translations from one of the best surrealist poets. A well presented book with a intriguing introduction.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars completely, utterly, distractingly fascinating, August 27, 1999

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This review is from: The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos (Modern European Poetry Series) (Hardcover)

Perhaps the most underrated, overlooked poet ever, Desnos' work is not only superior to the Frost/Coleridge/etc. you read in high school, but is also infinitely greater than that of Breton and the other surrealists, establishing the modern paradigm of poetic imagination. No other poet really comes close, except for the great Jeremy Reed (try Red-Haired Android to see what I mean). Warm, humane, and oh-so-brilliant, Desnos' poetry is absolutely, endlessly, mind-alteringly fascinating. Kudos to Carolyn Forche and William Kulik for bringing his work in such a fully-realized form to this side of the Atlantic.