The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry » (New Edition)

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School, City University of New York.

"A monumental work that will serve as a point of reference for contemporary French studies for years to come. Reaching beyond canonical works and authors, it runs through culture at large with force and elegance. It will change the course of French studies."-Tom Conley, Harvard University

Author Biography: Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School, City University of New York. She is the author and editor of many books, including Écritures de femmes, published by Yale University Press, and Marcel Proust (Overlook Illustrated Lives).

Contents

Editor's Note....................xxiii
Introduction by Mary Ann Caws....................xxv
1. 1897-1915: Symbolism, Post-Symbolism, Cubism, Simultanism Guillaume Apollinaire (Guillaume Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky) Blaise Cendrars (Frederick Louis Sauser) Paul Claudel Jean Cocteau Léon-Paul Fargue Max Jacob Pierre-Jean Jouve Valéry Larbaud Saint-John Perse (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) Pablo Picasso Catherine Pozzi Pierre Reverdy Saint-Pol Roux (Pierre-Paul Roux) Victor Segalen Jules Supervielle Paul Valéry Renée Vivien (Pauline Tarn) 2. 1916-1930: Dada and the Heroic Period of Surrealism Louis Aragon Antonin Artaud Le Pèse-nerfs (extraits) / The Nerve Meter (mary ann caws and Georges Bataille Samuel Beckett André Breton Claude Cahun (Lucy Schwob) Malcolm de Chazal Robert Desnos Paul Éluard (Eugène Grindel) Jean Follain Éclogue / Eclogue (stephen romer) 180 Greta Knutson Michel Leiris Henri Michaux Benjamin Péret Francis Ponge Jacques Prévert Raymond Queneau Léopold Sédar Senghor Philippe Soupault Jean Tardieu Tristan Tzara (Sami Rosenstock) Marguerite Yourcenar (Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerke de Crayencour) 3. 1931-1945: Prewar and War Poetry Claude de Burine Aimé Césaire René Char Andrée Chédid Léon-Gontran Damas Renè Daumal Michel Deguy René Depestre Mohammed Dib Louis-René des Forêts André Frénaud Jean Grosjean Eugène Guillevic Anne Hébert Radovan Ivsic Edmond Jabès Pierre-Albert Jourdan Gherasim Luca Dora Maar (HenrietteTheodora Markovitch) Joyce Mansour Meret Oppenheim (Elizabeth Oppenheim) Valentine Penrose Gisèle Prassinos Boris Vian 4. 1946-1966: The Death of André Breton, the Beginning of L'Éphémère Yves Bonnefoy André du Bouchet Bernard Collin Jacques Dupin Jacques Garelli Lorand Gaspar Édouard Glissant Philippe Jaccottet Claire Lejeune Claire Malroux Robert Marteau Abdelwahab Meddeb Gaston Miron Bernard Noël Anne Perrier Anne Portugal Jacques Réda Jude Stéfan Salah Stétié 5. 1967-1980: The Explosion of the Next Generation Anne-Marie Albiach Marie-Claire Bancquart Silvia Baron Supervielle Martine Broda Nicole Brossard Danielle Collobert Claude Esteban Marie Étienne Dominique Fourcade Michelle Grangaud Emmanuel Hocquard Hédi Kaddour Vénus Khoury-Ghata Abdellatif Laâbi Annie Le Brun Marcelin Pleynet Jacqueline Risset Jacques Roubaud Paul de Roux Claude Royet-Journoud Habib Tengour Franck Venaille 6. 1981-2002: Young Poetry at the End of the Millennium Pierre Alféri Tahar Bekri Olivier Cadiot Jean Frémon Liliane Giraudon Guy Goette Michel Houellebecq Franck André Jamme Jean-Michel Maulpoix Robert Melançon Pascalle Monnier Nathalie Quintane Valérie-Catherine Richez Amina Saïd Christophe Tarkos André Velter Select Bibliography....................613
Acknowledgments....................617
Index of Poets....................639
Index of Titles....................641
Index of Translators....................645