{"product_id":"pierre-reverdy-isbn-9781590176795","title":"Pierre Reverdy","description":"The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth-century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime. Reverdy’s poetry has exerted a special attraction on American poets, from Kenneth Rexroth to John Ashbery, and this new selection, featuring the work of fourteen distinguished translators, most of it appearing here for the first time, documents that ongoing relationship while offering readers the essential work of an extraordinary writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the French by:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Ashbery \u003cbr\u003eDan Bellm\u003cbr\u003eMary Ann Caws\u003cbr\u003eLydia Davis\u003cbr\u003eMarilyn Hacker\u003cbr\u003eRichard Howard\u003cbr\u003eGeoffrey O’Brien\u003cbr\u003eFrank O’Hara\u003cbr\u003eRon Padgett\u003cbr\u003eMark Polizzotti\u003cbr\u003eKenneth Rexroth\u003cbr\u003eRichard Sieburth\u003cbr\u003ePatricia Terry\u003cbr\u003eRosanna Warren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis bilingual edition includes the original French versions of each poem.“The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth-century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime.” —The Poetry Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pierre Reverdy is among the greatest of modern French poets, and certainly among the most elusive. His work is at once impersonal and intimate, crystalline and opaque, simple to the point of austerity. The landscape of his poetry is both instantly recognizable and, devoid of local specificity, imbued with an otherworldly strangeness. He is ‘a secret poet for secret readers,’ as Octavio Paz once described him, insisting on the necessity of parsing the silence, the empty spaces between what seems visible in the lines of his poems. Each feels like a fragment of a universe, and yet whole.” —Mary Ann Caws on Pierre Reverdy for Poetry Society of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A poem by Reverdy is a spiritual fact: everything that makes up the human being--sensations, feelings, other men and women--has been passed through the filter of poetry.\"  —Octavio Paz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reverdy, with Paul Eluard...is the purest of the writers of his time.” —Philippe Soupault\u003cb\u003ePierre Reverdy\u003c\/b\u003e (1889–1960) was born in Narbonne in the south of France. At age twenty-one he moved to Paris and became close friends with the artists and writers around Montmartre, particularly with the poets Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire and the painter Juan Gris. During this time, he converted to Catholicism, founded the seminal literary magazine Nord-Sud, married the seamstress Henriette Charlotte Bureau, and began a deep and intimate friendship with Coco Chanel that would last for the rest of his life. In 1926, after publishing several books of poetry that included collaborations with Gris, Picasso, and Georges Braque, he moved with his wife to the village of Solesmes to be near the Benedictine monastery at St. Peter’s Abbey. During the Nazi occupation, he joined the Resistance, refused to publish anything, and wrote the excruciatingly brutal \u003ci\u003eLe Chant de morts\u003c\/i\u003e (Song of the Dead) that was eventually published in 1948 with illustrations by Picasso. Besides a few trips around Europe and Greece, Reverdy remained in Solesmes for the rest of his life, ever more estranged from society and from his own faith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Ann Caws\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of dozens of books, including \u003ci\u003eGlorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Surrealist Look\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSurprised in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e; the editor of the \u003ci\u003eYale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e; and the translator of, among many others, André Breton, René Char, Robert Desnos, Paul Eluard, Ghérasim Luca, Stéphane Mallarmé, Jacques Roubaud, and Tristan Tzara.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"NYRB Poets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302001955045,"sku":"NP9781590176795","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590176795.jpg?v=1767734780","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/pierre-reverdy-isbn-9781590176795","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}