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Complete Poems Paperback – December 30, 1993

by Blaise Cendrars (Author), Jay Bochner (Author), Ron Padgett (Author)
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Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. The full range of his poetry―from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor―offers a challenge no translator has accepted until now.

Here, for the first time in English translation, is the complete poetry of a legendary twentieth-century French writer. Cendrars, born Frederick Louis Sauser in 1887, invented his life as well as his art. His adventures took him to Russia during the revolution of 1905 (where he traveled on the Trans-Siberian Railway), to New York in 1911, to the trenches of World War I (where he lost his right arm), to Brazil in the 1920s, to Hollywood in the 1930s, and back and forth across Europe.

With Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob he was a pioneer of modernist literature, working alongside artist friends such as Chagall, Delaunay, Modigliani, and Léger, composers Eric Satie and Darius Milhaud, and filmmaker Abel Gance. The range of Cendrars's poetry―from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor―offers a challenge no translator has accepted until now.
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  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    University of California Press
  4. Publication date
    December 30, 1993
  5. Dimensions
    6.06 x 1.07 x 8.82 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0520065808
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0520065802
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"Padgett unpretentiously conveys the vivid sensuality emerging from the rich profusion of Cendrars's travel experiences. Good reading for all lovers of 20th-century French poetry."--"Library Journal

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"At last! A superb translation of one of the great and greatly neglected Modernist poets! The map of Modernist poetry will never be quite the same."--Marjorie Perloff

"Padgett's sparkling translations do marvelous justice to the eccentric and exciting poetry of Blaise Cendrars."--John Ashbery

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; First Edition (December 30, 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 426 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520065808
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520065802
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.06 x 1.07 x 8.82 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Michael M.
5.0 out of 5 stars What a literary collection should be
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2023
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This refers to the University of California Press edition. A good literary collection should make the author’s works seem to be essential reading for all educated people. Cendrars is an important poet of the twentieth century who deserves to be remembered and this collection shows why.
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Joel C. Thompson
5.0 out of 5 stars compelling and engaging omnibus of poesie
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2021
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More than a poet, Blaise Cendrars is a story teller who grabs hold of your mind with his ever changing plot twists and pieces or information, as revealed in his two long narrative poems here and many smaller ones. After encountering how he writes and reflects on the word, you likely will want to begin reading his novels that are full of similar entertaining, engaging and often unpredictable encounters and adventures.
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Hank Hill
4.0 out of 5 stars I was delighted to pick it up
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2017
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I am a big fan of the surrealists, and when I found this volume of poetry by Blaise Cendrars, I was delighted to pick it up. The quality of the binding was great, and I was very pleased with the choice of paper and font type. My only misgiving about this text was that the original French was included, but it was really small for some reason. Maybe it was because of space requirements or something, but it just kind of annoyed me that I had to screw my eyes up in order to read it in the original. Otherwise, this is a great book!
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Frank Hickey
4.0 out of 5 stars As Cendrars Said, 'Play The Wild Bull In The Streets Of Paris. What Did We Care? The Paris Girls Were Pretty."
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2014
Cendrars writes modernist poems that grab you.

A world traveler as a teenager, he saw the world as

his blank sheet of writing paper. Traveling through

frosty snowy Russia, he realised that he was born to

write.

Traveling on a cattle boat to New York City, he settled

in a flophouse on the West Side, just so that he could

haunt the huge library nearby. He says that on Easter

Sunday, he attended Mass, slumped back home,

ate a bread-crust and fell asleep.

When he woke up, he stayed up all night writing his

most famous poem 'Easter In New York.' He finished

it and fell asleep, exhausted.

We writers know that feeling.

He always said that he only erased three words before

finishing the poem.

It was a spontaneous poem, in the best Kerouac-sense

of the word.

He kept writing.

In 1914, he joined the French Foreign Legion, fought

in the hell of the front line for months and lost his

right arm in battle.

He was an early celebrity writer, after that. He cut a

figure in the Montpernasse cafes.

The poems in this book are well-presented and

translated. Having lived and worked throughout

France as a day laborer, I can still read and speak

it. But that's another story.

That said, this book is a wonderful introduction

to this fascinating, brave and erudite man.

For his memory, we should buy it, laugh at his

wit and never take things too seriously, After losing

his arm, Cendrars never did.

---- Frank Hickey, writer of the Max Royster crime

novels of Pigtown Books,
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clocklungs
3.0 out of 5 stars Room for improvement
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2012
Pros:
It's the complete poems of Blaise Cendrars
It includes the original French
It has an introduction and translator's notes on the texts

Cons:
The French and English texts are in separate portions of the book, rather than on opposing pages
The French texts are presented in a smaller font and without any of the illustrations that accompany the English
The background notes on each section/poem are all at the end of the book, rather than placed at the beginning of each section/poem to which they refer
There are no indications in the texts that a given poem or term has associated notes
The poems are presented in uniform size and typeface, without any attempt to reproduce the originals' extra-textual features
I, subjectively, prefer other translations to Padgett's.
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