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The voice of things

Francis Ponge

McGraw=Hill

Francis Ponge Selected Poems (Faber Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Faber&Faber

Things

Penguin??Books

LeSavon (French Edition)

French & European Pubns

Poetry. Translated from the French by Lee Fahnestock. First published in 1942 and considered the keystone of Francis Ponge's work, Le parti pris de choses appears here in its entirety. It reveals his preoccupation with nature and its metaphoric transformation through the creative ambiguity of language. "My immediate reaction to Lee Fahnenstock's translation was: this must certainly be 'Ponge's voice in English'...[She] gives us his tones, rhythms, humor...[and] maneuvers his word play with respect and unostentatious discretion"--Barbara Wright, translator of Queneau, Pinget, Sarraute.

The Nature of Things

Red Dust

Through translations by two major contemporary poets and a scholar intimate with the Ponge canon, this volume offers selections of mostly earlier poetry —Le parti pris des choses, Pièces, Proêmes, and Nouveau nouveau recueil—as representative of the strongest work of this modern French master.

Francis Ponge: Selected Poems (English and French Edition)

Wake Forest University Press

This release brings together the French object poet Frances Ponge and the well-known poet and translator Robert Bly. Francis Ponge died in 1988, and this book is Robert Bly's moving tribute to him. In translations which are clear and true to the originals, Robert Bly brings Francis Ponge's work alive for the English reader. This bilingual edition contains several of Bly's finest object poems, never before brought together in book form.

Ten Poems of Francis Ponge Translated by Robert Bly & Ten Poems of Robert Bly Inspired by the Poems of Francis Ponge (English and French Edition)

Owl's Head Press

Things: Selected Writings of Francis Ponge

White Pine Press

Shortlisted for the 2009 Popescu Prize for European poetry in translation
 A bilingual French/English edition of new translations of prose poems by a writer praised by Italo Calvino as a peerless master . . . I believe that he may be the Lucretius of our time, reconstructing the physical nature of the world by means of the impalpable, powderfine dust of words - Six Memos for the Next Millennium.
 Still radical, the poems of Francis Ponge seek to give the things of the world their due. Impatient with the usual baggage of literary description, Ponge attends to a pebble, a washpot, an eiderdown, a platter of fish, with lyrical precision; playing with sounds, rhythms and associations of words, he creates wholly new objects but which may be more touching, if possible, than natural objects, because human ( My Creative Method ).

Unfinished Ode to Mud

CB Editions

Ponge, ou la rage, dans ses proêmes, d'exprimer la chose, qui nous prend à partie pour «atteindre enfin par la parole au point dialectique où [la] situent sa forme et son milieu, sa condition muette et l'exercice de sa profession juste». Ponge, ou l'homme en chemin vers l'homme dans ce dire où l'objet montre «ce qu'il a de brut, de différent» au terme de l'investigation aimante du regard poétique, où se trouve conjuré le sort de l'«opiniâtrement clos».Ponge, c'est aussi, en marge des écoles, mais au c ur de l'histoire littéraire sans cesse revisitée, la quête du langage adéquat, quête incessante que souligne la genèse des textes. Les mots, le style doivent rendre compte du dessein humaniste du poète : être le héraut - plus que le chantre - de ce qui l'entoure et qu'artisan il détoure pour l'accoucher de son secret/projet - «une exacte compréhension du monde sans doute est à ce prix». «L'art de vivre d'abord y devait trouver son compte : il nous fallait relever ce défi.» Le texte, jusqu'en sa matérialité, se veut pièce à conviction dans le réseau mouvant des recueils toujours recomposés, avec, en ligne de fuite, le rêve mallarméen du Livre.

Oeuvres Completes Volume 2 Bibliotheque de la Pleiade (French Edition)

Genre Fiction

French and European Publications Inc

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