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Transparence of the World » (Bilingual)
Authors: Jean Follain, W. S. Merwin
ISBN-13: 9781556591907, ISBN-10: 155659190X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: Bilingual
Author Biography: Jean Follain
W.S. Merwin is one of America's leading poets. His prizes include the 2005 National Book Award for his collected poems, Migration, the Pulitzer Prize, the Stevens Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Lannan Foundation. He is the author of dozens of books of poetry and translations. He lives in Hawaii, where he cultivates endangered palm trees.
Book Synopsis
A bilingual edition celebrating the centennial of Follain's birth, translated by one of America's great poets.
Publishers Weekly
The indefatigable W.S. Merwin, who won the Howard S. Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets for last year's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, here moves into 20th-century French, with Transparence of the World, a selection of poems by deceptively limpid French lyric poet Jean Follain (1903-1971). Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Voluntary Mutilation | 3 | |
| Landscape of a Child on His Way to the Place of the Regents | 5 | |
| Appeal to the Red-Haired Soldiers | 7 | |
| Death of a Ferret | 9 | |
| Father and Daughter | 11 | |
| Last Judgment | 13 | |
| The Women Who Sew Livery | 15 | |
| The Song of the Dragoon | 17 | |
| Imperial Evenings | 19 | |
| Free Growths | 21 | |
| Preview of Death | 23 | |
| Evenings of Ink | 25 | |
| Dusk | 27 | |
| Signs for Travellers | 29 | |
| Speech Alone | 31 | |
| The Beast | 33 | |
| The Pyramid | 35 | |
| Dawn | 37 | |
| Housewives | 39 | |
| The Barn-Owl | 41 | |
| Existence | 43 | |
| Matter | 45 | |
| The Theater of Tableaux Vivants | 47 | |
| The Useful | 49 | |
| The Silence | 51 | |
| Asia | 53 | |
| The Secret | 55 | |
| Domestic Life | 57 | |
| The School and Nature | 59 | |
| Death | 61 | |
| The Egg | 63 | |
| October Thoughts | 65 | |
| The Students' Dog | 67 | |
| The Plate | 69 | |
| Humans | 71 | |
| The Books and Love | 73 | |
| Tragic Winter | 75 | |
| Fraternities | 77 | |
| Conspiracy | 79 | |
| Life | 81 | |
| The Woman and the Child in Costume | 83 | |
| Wall | 85 | |
| Trials | 87 | |
| Cadences | 89 | |
| The Voices | 91 | |
| End of a Century | 93 | |
| Another Time | 95 | |
| Meal | 97 | |
| The Evening Suit | 99 | |
| Hollow Daydream | 101 | |
| Show | 103 | |
| The Square | 105 | |
| Underground Palace | 107 | |
| Couple | 109 | |
| Signs | 111 | |
| Eve | 113 | |
| Exile | 115 | |
| Black Meat | 117 | |
| Imperial Hamlet | 119 | |
| Solitaries | 121 | |
| World's End | 123 | |
| The Tragic in Time | 125 | |
| Thief | 127 | |
| About the Author | 129 | |
| About the Translator | 131 |
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