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1	Prayers from the Ark more books like this by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold add to wishlist These prayers were first published, in French, in 1947 by a private press. Rumer Godden discovered a volume of them and translated them into English. The poem-prayers are at once reverent, humorous, realistic and concise. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
2	Paris spleen, 1869 more books like this by Charles Baudelaire add to wishlist see all copies from $3.65! new only from $7.53! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Les Fleurs Du Mal more books like this by Charles Baudelaire add to wishlist Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) est un pote franais. Il se vit reprocher son criture et le choix de ses sujets. Il ne fut compris que par quelques-uns de ses pairs. Aujourdhui reconnu comme un crivain majeur de lhistoire de la posie franaise, Baudelaire est devenu un classique. Barbey dAurevilly voyait en lui un Dante dune poque dchue. Au ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Prayers from the Ark more books like this by Gasztol Carmen Bernos De, Carmen B De Gasztold, Carmen Bernos De Gasztold add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
5	Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology more books like this by Professor Mary Ann Caws (Editor) add to wishlist This comprehensive anthology includes many artists not traditionally associated with the movement, as well as Surrealism's own loudest proponents, making an unprecedented effort to include the work of women Surrealists alongside the more well-known contributions by men. Kay Boyle, Man Ray, Dali, Duchamp, Leonora Carrington, Mina Loy, and scores of ... see all copies from $12.95! new only from $23.52! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Prayers from the Ark more books like this by Carmen Bernos De Gasztold, Rumer Godden (Translator) add to wishlist Available for the first time, a stunning illustrated edition of these timeless and well-loved poems. French poet de Gasztold wrote these poems in the 1940s at the Benedictine Abbaye de Saint Louis du Temple near Paris where she lived and worked under nuns' care. Watercolor illustrations throughout. CC see all copies from $1.99! first editions
7	Introduction to French Poetry (Dual-Language) more books like this by Stanley Appelbaum (Editor) add to wishlist Works by Villon, Ronsard, Voltaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, many more. Full French texts with literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical, critical information on each poet. Introduction. 31 black-and-white illus. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.35! \| SVS
8	Decouverte Du Poeme: Introduction A L'Explication de Textes more books like this by Micheline Dufau, Ellen D'Alelio add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
9	Alcools more books like this by Guillaume Apollinaire add to wishlist Apollinaire's best-known volume pays homage to the poet's role as artist, prophet, and savior. Apollinaire's recurrent themes of crucifiction, loss of love, transcendence are evident here, as are three dominant symbols: Fire, Shadow, and Alcohol. First published in 1913, the title was suggested by Blaise Cendrars as preferable to Apollinaire's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Prayers from the Ark more books like this by Rumer Godden (Translator), Carmen Bernos, C Gasztold add to wishlist An illustrated collection of poems, each a prayer by one of the animals in Noah's ark. see all copies from $2.94!
11	Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916 more books like this by Guillaume Apollinaire add to wishlist This bilingual edition is notable for its translations of the concrete poems and for the thoroughness and acuity of the commentary. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $38.18!
12	Rimbaud : poems. more books like this by Arthur Rimbaud add to wishlist Burnt out at 23, Rimbaud has become a model for the poet as wayward genius. Nevertheless, he wrote a substantial amount of lyric and dramatic verse. This volume contains all his mature output, together with several short prose works, including "A Season in Hell". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems more books like this by Joseph M Bernstein (Editor), Arthur Rimbaud, Charles P Baudelaire add to wishlist Here, for the first time, the work of three of France's greatest poets has been published in a single volume: Arthur Symons' unabridged translation of "Flowers of Evil" and the Prose Poems of Baudelaire; Louise Varese's translation of Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell" and Prose Poems from "Illuminations"; J. Norman Cameron's translation of the verse ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $7.82! \| first editions
14	The Jerusalem Continuations: The London and Turin Redactions, Volume VIII of the Old French Crusade Cycle more books like this by Peter R Grillo (Editor) add to wishlist "The Old French Crusade Cycle", published in the original old French text, is generally understood to be the result of a relatively rapid process of literary accretion that extended the narrative of the First Crusade as it had been originally recounted in the 12th-century, quasi-historical "Chanson d'Antioche" and "Chanson de Jerusalem" in such a ... see all copies from $14.19! new only from $18.00! \| first editions
15	The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: With Translations by American and British Poets more books like this by Paul Auster add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! first editions
16	Days and Memory more books like this by Charlotte Delbo, Rosette Lamont (Translator) add to wishlist In this her last book, completed shortly before her death, Delbo becomes the living voice of memory, conjuring a series of poems and vignettes, dialogues and meditations that interweave her experience in the death camp with the suffering of others around the world who bear remembering. These scenes comprise a comprehensive picture of man's ... see all copies from $7.44! new only from $60.19! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry more books like this by Paul Auster (Editor) add to wishlist 'Indispensable...a book that everyone interested in modern poetry should have close to hand, a source of renewable delights and discoveries, a book that will long claim our attention...To my knowledge, no current anthology is as full and as deftly edited.' --Peter Brooks see all copies from $5.00! new only from $13.78! \| first editions
18	D'Apres Tout: Poems more books like this by Jean Follain add to wishlist see all copies from $12.91!
19 view cover	The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry: From Nerval to Valery in English Translation more books like this by Angel Flores (Editor), Patti Smith (Foreword by) add to wishlist First published in 1958, this collection introduced an indispensible corpus of western poetry to countless American college students, francophiles, and would-be poets -- among them Patti Smith, whose vocation was formed she says, by reading this book. The poetic and cultural tradition forged by the Symbolist poets -- Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.48!
20	Negritude: Black Poetry from Africa and the Caribbean, more books like this by Professor Norman R Shapiro add to wishlist see all copies from $60.95! first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Songs of the Women Trouveres more books like this by Eglal Doss-Quinby (Editor), Joan Tasker Grimbert (Editor), Wendy Pfeffer (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology brings together the works of women poet-composers, or trouveres, in northern France in the 12th and 13th centuries. It includes the Old French texts of 75 compositions, extant music for 18 monophonic songs and 19 polyphonic motets, and an introduction. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.10! \| first editions
22 view cover	Shadow more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Marcia Brown (Translator), Th French of Blaise Cend (Translator) add to wishlist "Here the lore of African stories and storytellers that inspired Cendrars is conveyed by strong use of pure color, by eerie wisps of superimposed images, and by strong silhouettes, all in handsome double-page spreads that are remarkable in their composition".--Bulletin, Center for Children's Books. Caldecott Medal; ALA Notable Children's Book. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The art of poetry more books like this by Paul Valery add to wishlist All of Valery's major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry are included in this volume. T.S. Eliot writes in his introduction that Valery "invented, and was to impose on his age ...a new conception of the poet." In Valery's own words, the poet is characterized as a "cool scientist, almost an algebraist, in the service of a subtle ... see all copies from $7.44! new only from $36.20! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry more books like this by Professor Mary Ann Caws (Editor) add to wishlist Not since the publication of Paul Auster's "The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry" (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry in the English-speaking world. Here for the first time is a comprehensive bilingual representation of French poetic achievement in the twentieth century, from the ... see all copies from $15.90! new only from $15.90! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Selected poems more books like this by Charles P Baudelaire, Carol Clark (Notes by) add to wishlist The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. "Tableaux parisiens" portrays the brutal life of Paris' thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories and poorhouses. In love poems such as "Le Beau ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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