Poems of Paris [Hardcover]

A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems from across the ages inspired by the City of Light

Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as has Paris. Poems of Paris covers a wide range of time, from the Renaissance to the present, and includes not only the pantheon of classic French poets, from Ronsard to Baudelaire to Mallarmé, but also tributes by visitors to the city and famous expatriates from all over the world, including Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, Rainer Maria Rilke, Vladimir Nabokov, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, and many more. All the famous sights of Paris are touched on here, from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower, as are such classic Parisian themes as food, drink, and love, and famous events from the Revolution to the Resistance.Contents

THE CITY OF LIGHT
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE  Trip to Paris
BLAISE CENDRARS   From The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jeanne of France
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE  Twilight: Daybreak
PAUL VERLAINE  The Noise of the Cabarets
JULES LAFORGUE  Spring Evening on the Boulevards
SARA TEASDALE   Paris in Spring
E.E. CUMMINGS   “Paris;this April sunset completely utters”
TRISTAN CORBIERE   Paris At Night
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI   Square d’Orleans
FRANCOIS COPPEE   Paris
PHILIPPE SOUPAULT   Horizon
CHARLES BUKOWSKI   Paris
HENRI COLE   Paris Is My Seroquel
RAYMOND QUENEAU   Cleanliness
GREGORY CORSO &lS,