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The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth-century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime. Reverdy’s poetry has exerted a special attraction on American poets, from Kenneth Rexroth to John Ashbery, and this new selection, featuring the work of fourteen distinguished translators, most of it appearing here for the first time, documents that ongoing relationship while offering readers the essential work of an extraordinary writer.


Translated from the French by:

John Ashbery 
Dan Bellm
Mary Ann Caws
Lydia Davis
Marilyn Hacker
Richard Howard
Geoffrey O’Brien
Frank O’Hara
Ron Padgett
Mark Polizzotti
Kenneth Rexroth
Richard Sieburth
Patricia Terry
Rosanna Warren

Pierre Reverdy

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      Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/2013
      ISBN13: 9781590176795, 978-1590176795
      ISBN10: 1590176790

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth-century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime. Reverdy’s poetry has exerted a special attraction on American poets, from Kenneth Rexroth to John Ashbery, and this new selection, featuring the work of fourteen distinguished translators, most of it appearing here for the first time, documents that ongoing relationship while offering readers the essential work of an extraordinary writer.


      Translated from the French by:

      John Ashbery 
      Dan Bellm
      Mary Ann Caws
      Lydia Davis
      Marilyn Hacker
      Richard Howard
      Geoffrey O’Brien
      Frank O’Hara
      Ron Padgett
      Mark Polizzotti
      Kenneth Rexroth
      Richard Sieburth
      Patricia Terry
      Rosanna Warren

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