Zoneis the fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett’s fifty-year engagement with the work of France’s greatest modern poet. This bilingual edition of Apollinaire’s poetry represents the full range of his achievement from traditional lyric verse to the pathbreaking visual poems he called calligrams, from often-anthologized classics to hitherto-untranslated gems, from poems of cosmic breadth to a poem about his shoes. Including an introduction by the distinguished scholar Peter Read, helpful endnotes, a preface, and an annotated bibliography by Padgett, this new edition of Apollinaire stands out not only for its compact and judicious selection of the essential poems but also as the work of an important American poet.The Washington Posthas said, “No praise can be too high for Ron Padgett’s translations.”Table of Contents (preliminary)
Translator’s Preface Acknowledgments
Zone The Pont Mirabeau The Song of the Badly-Loved Poem Read at the Wedding of André Salmon Inscription for the Tomb of the Painter Henri Rousseau Customs Inspector Marizibill Annie The House of the Dead The White Snow Prayer [Untitled] (“Come along”) La Grenouillère The Gypsy The Rediscovered Lock Hunting Horns The Lady The Traveler In La Santé Procession The Brasier The Autumn Crocuses The Women Vendémiaire Hotel Before the Movies Trip to Paris Advertisement for the House of Walk-Over To Nuptials The Musician of Saint Merri The Windows Tree A Phantom Made of Clouds Monday Rue Christine Across Europe It’s Raining The Little Car There Postcard Festival 4 The Nine Doors of Your Body The Seasons Shadow The Pretty Redhead
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