{"product_id":"zone-isbn-9781590179246","title":"Zone","description":"\u003ci\u003eZone\u003c\/i\u003e is the fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett’s fifty-year engagement with the work of France’s greatest modern poet. This bilingual edition of Apollinaire’s poetry represents the full range of his achievement from traditional lyric verse to the pathbreaking visual poems he called calligrams, from often-anthologized classics to hitherto-untranslated gems, from poems of cosmic breadth to a poem about his shoes. Including an introduction by the distinguished scholar Peter Read, helpful endnotes, a preface, and an annotated bibliography by Padgett, this new edition of Apollinaire stands out not only for its compact and judicious selection of the essential poems but also as the work of an important American poet. \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003ehas said, “No praise can be too high for Ron Padgett’s translations.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis bilingual edition includes the original French versions of each poem.\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e(preliminary)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTranslator’s Preface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Zone\u003cbr\u003e The Pont Mirabeau\u003cbr\u003e The Song of the Badly-Loved\u003cbr\u003e Poem Read at the Wedding of André Salmon\u003cbr\u003e Inscription for the Tomb of the Painter Henri Rousseau Customs Inspector\u003cbr\u003e Marizibill\u003cbr\u003e Annie\u003cbr\u003e The House of the Dead\u003cbr\u003e The White Snow\u003cbr\u003e Prayer\u003cbr\u003e [Untitled] (“Come along”)\u003cbr\u003e La Grenouillère\u003cbr\u003e The Gypsy\u003cbr\u003e The Rediscovered Lock\u003cbr\u003e Hunting Horns\u003cbr\u003e The Lady\u003cbr\u003e The Traveler\u003cbr\u003e In La Santé\u003cbr\u003e Procession\u003cbr\u003e The Brasier\u003cbr\u003e The Autumn Crocuses\u003cbr\u003e The Women\u003cbr\u003e Vendémiaire\u003cbr\u003e Hotel\u003cbr\u003e Before the Movies\u003cbr\u003e Trip to Paris\u003cbr\u003e Advertisement for the House of Walk-Over\u003cbr\u003e To\u003cbr\u003e Nuptials\u003cbr\u003e The Musician of Saint Merri\u003cbr\u003e The Windows\u003cbr\u003e Tree\u003cbr\u003e A Phantom Made of Clouds\u003cbr\u003e Monday Rue Christine\u003cbr\u003e Across Europe\u003cbr\u003e It’s Raining\u003cbr\u003e The Little Car\u003cbr\u003e There\u003cbr\u003e Postcard\u003cbr\u003e Festival\u003cbr\u003e 4\u003cbr\u003e The Nine Doors of Your Body\u003cbr\u003e The Seasons\u003cbr\u003e Shadow\u003cbr\u003e The Pretty Redhead\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRecommended Reading\u003c\/i\u003e“Ron Padgett’s translation from the French is pitch perfect and dazzling.\" —Deborah Levy, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Best Summer Books 2018\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How well does Padgett apply these laudable [translation] precepts in this book? In two words: amazingly well. When I read the poems in French, I kept thinking “Now how can you possibly put \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c\/i\u003e into English?” Then I looked at the facing text. And thought, to paraphrase Henry Higgins in \u003ci\u003eMy Fair Lady,\u003c\/i\u003e “By God, he’s got it! He’s really got it!” It’s like watching a little boat in high seas: how can it possibly make that wave, and that one? But it does, easily: it just floats up and over them. Padgett makes it look easy. We translators know nothing is harder than that.\" —David Ball, \u003ci\u003eTranslation Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eZone, Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e by Guillaume Apollinaire, Ron Padgett  demonstrates that translators should be willing to sometimes  mistranslate in order to revivify a text’s more distinctive formal  characteristics. Idiosyncrasies and dalliances abound in Padgett’s  judicious sampling (as they do in Apollinaire’s \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e)...One of the joys of reading \u003ci\u003eZone\u003c\/i\u003e is discovering the utter range of Padgett’s stylings as both translator and poet...\u003ci\u003eZone\u003c\/i\u003e contains Apollinaire’s ambiguous vapors and punchy  crystallizations alike, though it also succeeds in materializing what we  love most about Padgett.\" —Dylan Furcall, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Padgett takes liberties, but he has given deep thought to them and he  offers, in his introduction, a detailed discussion of the challenges  that he has faced in the fifty-odd years that he has devoted to this  project. Whenever a choice needs to be made between meaning and melody,  he tends to opt for the latter, successfully bringing out as much of  Apollinaire’s music as possible.\" —John Taylor, ArtsFuse\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The one poet of our time who, in lightness and depth of inspiration, in spontaneity and clarity of expression… can stand beside Sappho, Anacreon, Alcaeus.” —\u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most fascinating and elusive figures of modern French poetry.” —Scott Bates, \u003ci\u003eFrench Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Apollinaire’s distinction lies in his being the first poet of our age who is ‘modern’ and popular at the same time, modern in his many technical and thematic innovations and popular in his simple directness of speech.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Guillaume Apollinaire:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire is like no other: clear, full of  light, bright with movement, with the transparency of flowing water.  Even from the chalk trenches of the First World War, it sings like love,  compassionate and friendly, in a French the language had only dreamed  of before he wrote.”—\u003ci\u003eTranslation and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for Ron Padgett’s translations:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A superb translation! Ron Padgett, himself an important poet, catches  precisely the French poet’s rhythms, his colloquialisms, his racy  diction and emotional resonances.”—Marjorie Perloff\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “No praise can be too high for Ron Padgett’s translations.”—Dominic Di Bernardi, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuillaume Apollinaire\u003c\/b\u003e (1880–1918) was born Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky in Rome, the  illegitimate son of an impoverished Polish woman and an Italian army  officer. He spent his boyhood on the French Riviera with his mother and  younger brother, Albert, attending schools in Monaco, Cannes, and Nice,  until the family moved to Paris in 1899. Apollinaire did not pass the \u003ci\u003ebaccalauréat \u003c\/i\u003ebut  began writing on his own, leaving Paris in 1901 to work as a private  tutor for a family in the Rhineland for two years. Upon his return to  Paris, he was employed as a bank clerk while writing plays and essays  and becoming acquainted with Symbolist poets and playwrights,  avant-garde musicians, choreographers, and visual artists, such as Pablo  Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Rousseau, and Marcel Duchamp. In 1910  Apollinaire published a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eL’Hérésiarque et cie\u003c\/i\u003e, that was nominated for the Goncourt Prize, and in 1913 he published his first significant collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eAlcools\u003c\/i\u003e.  At the onset of World War I, Apollinaire joined the French army, first  serving as a member of the artillery division and then as part of the  infantry fighting on the front lines where he suffered a head wound in  March 1916. He returned to Paris and oversaw the production a year later  of his play \u003ci\u003eLes Mamelles de Tirésias\u003c\/i\u003e, a work in which the word “\u003ci\u003esurréaliste\u003c\/i\u003e”  appears for the first time. A major influence on the artists and  writers who would come to be known as surrealists, Apollinaire died of  influenza two days before Armistice Day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRon Padgett\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and translator whose \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and the 2014 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Prize\u003c\/i\u003e for the best poetry book. Padgett has translated the poetry of  Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Valery Larbaud, and Blaise Cendrars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Read\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of modern French literature and visual arts at the  University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. He has published books  and essays on Apollinaire and his circle, on other French poets, and on  artists including Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Auguste Rodin, and Alberto  Giacometti.","brand":"NYRB Poets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303432212709,"sku":"NP9781590179246","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590179246.jpg?v=1767744889","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/zone-isbn-9781590179246","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}