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Selected Poems, Bilingual edition »

Authors: Paul Verlaine, C. F. MacIntyre
ISBN-13: 9780520012981, ISBN-10: 0520012984
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: February 1961
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Paul Verlaine

Paul Verlaine, author of works including Romance sans paroles and Sagesse, was elected France's "Prince of Poets" by his peers in 1894.

Book Synopsis

The influential French poet, Symbolist leader, and Decadent Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was recognized as a groundbreaking writer even in his own lifetime—his stylistic innovations brought a new musicality to French poetry and paved the way for free verse and other twentieth-century techniques and experiments. This selection of poems, with the French text en face, provides a comprehensive selection of Verlaine's verse together with a lucid introduction illuminating his life and works.

	A Street in Bronzeville	3
	kitchenette building	3
	the mother	4
	southeast corner	5
	hunchback girl: she thinks of heaven	5
	a song in the front yard	6
	the ballad of chocolate Mabbie	7
	the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon	8
	Sadie and Maud	8
	the independent man	9
	of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery	10
	the vacant lot	11
	The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith	12
	Negro Hero	19
	gay chaps at the bar	22
	still do I keep my look, my identity ...	23
	my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell	23
	looking	24
	piano after war	24
	mentors	25
	the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men	25
	firstly inclined to take what it is told	26
	"God works in a mysterious way"	27
	love note I: surely	27
	love note II: flags	28
	the progress	28
	Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood	33
	Clogged and soft and sloppy eyes	33
	Chicken, she chided early, should not wait	33
	After the baths and bowel-work, he was dead	34
	Late Annie in her bower lay	34
	The duck fats rot in the roasting pan	35
	"Do not be afraid of no"	36
	But can see better there, and laughing there	37
	Think of sweet and chocolate	38
	You need the untranslatable ice to watch	50
	The Certainty we two shall meet by God	51
	Oh mother, mother, where is happiness	51
	The Womanhood	52
	People who have no children can be hard	52
	What shall I give my children? who are poor	53
	And shall I prime my children, pray, to pray?	53
	First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string	54
	When my dears die, the festival-colored brightness	54
	Life for my child is simple, and is good	55
	Sweet Sally took a cardboard box	56
	A light and diplomatic bird	57
	Carried her unprotesting out the door	58
	They get to Benvenuti's. There are booths	59
	The dry brown coughing beneath their feet	61
	And if sun comes	62
	One wants a Teller in a time like this	63
	People protest in sprawling lightless ways	64
	Men of careful turns, haters of forks in the road	65
	In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father	69
	My Little 'Bout-town Gal	70
	Strong Men, Riding Horses	71
	The Bean Eaters	72
	We Real Cool	73
	Old Mary	74
	A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi, Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon	75
	The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till	81
	Mrs. Small	82
	Jessie Mitchell's Mother	85
	The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock	87
	The Lovers of the Poor	90
	A Sunset of the City	94
	A Man of the Middle Class	96
	The Crazy Woman	99
	Bronzeville Man with a Belt in the Back	100
	A Lovely Love	101
	A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary	102
	Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat	103
	In Emanuel's Nightmare: Another Coming of Christ	107
	The Ballad of Rudolph Reed	110
	Riders to the Blood-red Wrath	115
	The Empty Woman	119
	To Be in Love	120
	Of Robert Frost	122
	Langston Hughes	123
	A Catch of Shy Fish	124
	garbageman: the man with the orderly mind	124
	sick man looks at flowers	124
	old people working (garden, car)	125
	weaponed woman	125
	old tennis player	125
	a surrealist and Omega	126
	Spaulding and Francois	126
	Big Bessie throws ber son into the street	127
	About Gwendolyn Brooks	129

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Poetry

French Poetry

French poetry -> 19th century
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