Sens Plastique
Malcomb De Chazal

Sun, 1980

unique surrealist prose-work, tr Irving Weiss
  
  











  



  
Selected Poems of Rene Char2 reviews
Rene Char

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1992

Char the Obscure

+ A rare view into a great French poet's oevre

Unfortunately, Rene Char is not as widely known as he should be. It would be insufficient to merely deem him a surrealist or an incarnation of Rimbaud's genius,so it must be known that his world of poetry is slightly beyond any established form or category. His poems combine nature, beauty, and ...
  
  











  



  
Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition3 reviews
Dylan Thomas

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2003

Dylan's greatness as a poet A power of feeling and music all his own

+ the Walt Whitman of Wales
+ Words Well Written

The greatness of Dylan Thomas is in his music and voice, a powerful rolling seasound. It is too in that whole mysteriously rich vocabulary, that unique diction of his own a diction which like that of Hopkins , and Dickinson seems to strike us as wholly original. The greatness of Thomas is too in ...
  
  











  



  
Collected Poems (New Directions Book)5 reviews
Kenneth Patchen

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1969

Poet/Artist of Many Voices

+ Criminally underappreciated poet of exceptional sincerity honesty and power
+ My favorite poet--angry, honest, original, beautiful.
+ infinities of mad infinitudes - the crier
  
  











  



  
AndrŽ Breton: Selections (Poets for the Millennium, 1)1 review
AndrŽ Breton

University of California Press, 2003

Sheer Surreal Madness

wow! this is a superb collection of poetry and prose by the leader of the surrealist movement,everyones favorite Parisian(aside from Apollinaire)Andre Breton.this collection displays some simplly beautiful and hallucinatory writing.i think my favorite(which is hard to decide)is "choose life",a ...
  
  











  



  
E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-196227 reviews
E. E. Cummings

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1994

e.e. cummings, a man after my likes

+ be your own judge...
+ great collection of EE Cummings poetry
+ Fantastic
  
  











  



  
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems20 reviews
Pablo Neruda

City Lights Publishers, 2004

A wonderful place to start with Neruda

+ exceptional and passionate neruda!!
+ A good translation
+ Pure
+ More than just a great intro-awesome even if you already have some Pablo
  
  











  



  
Alcools: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)2 reviews
Guillaume Apollinaire

Wesleyan, 1995

Good, risky new translation.

Guillaume Apollinaire, Alcools (translated by Donald Revell) (Wesleyan, 1995) What is there to review about Alcools itself? It's Guillaume Apollinaire. It was published ninety years ago. It's one of the documents Tristan Tzara was reading obsessively while forming the dada movement, and thus ...
  
  











  



  
Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition2 reviews
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud

University Of Chicago Press, 2005

Buy it for the orginal French poems, not the translations

+ Love Edgar Allen Poe, Love Rimbaud

I do not know French well enough to read these poems without their translations. That is where Wallace Fowlie's literal translations often come in handy. The only problem with his translations is that they tend not be very poetic. Often, Fowlie rearranges word order unnecessarily, creating more ...
  
  











  



  
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems20 reviews
Pablo Neruda

City Lights Publishers, 2004

A wonderful place to start with Neruda

+ exceptional and passionate neruda!!
+ A good translation
+ Pure
+ More than just a great intro-awesome even if you already have some Pablo
  
  











  



  
Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition3 reviews
Dylan Thomas

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2003

Dylan's greatness as a poet A power of feeling and music all his own

+ the Walt Whitman of Wales
+ Words Well Written

The greatness of Dylan Thomas is in his music and voice, a powerful rolling seasound. It is too in that whole mysteriously rich vocabulary, that unique diction of his own a diction which like that of Hopkins , and Dickinson seems to strike us as wholly original. The greatness of Thomas is too in ...
  
  











  



  
Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition2 reviews
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud

University Of Chicago Press, 2005

Buy it for the orginal French poems, not the translations

+ Love Edgar Allen Poe, Love Rimbaud

I do not know French well enough to read these poems without their translations. That is where Wallace Fowlie's literal translations often come in handy. The only problem with his translations is that they tend not be very poetic. Often, Fowlie rearranges word order unnecessarily, creating more ...
  
  











  



  
Sens Plastique
Malcomb De Chazal

Sun, 1980

unique surrealist prose-work, tr Irving Weiss
  
  











  



  
Collected Poems (New Directions Book)5 reviews
Kenneth Patchen

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1969

Poet/Artist of Many Voices

+ Criminally underappreciated poet of exceptional sincerity honesty and power
+ My favorite poet--angry, honest, original, beautiful.
+ infinities of mad infinitudes - the crier
  
  











  



  
E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-196227 reviews
E. E. Cummings

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1994

e.e. cummings, a man after my likes

+ be your own judge...
+ great collection of EE Cummings poetry
+ Fantastic
  
  











  



  
Selected Poems of Rene Char2 reviews
Rene Char

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1992

Char the Obscure

+ A rare view into a great French poet's oevre

Unfortunately, Rene Char is not as widely known as he should be. It would be insufficient to merely deem him a surrealist or an incarnation of Rimbaud's genius,so it must be known that his world of poetry is slightly beyond any established form or category. His poems combine nature, beauty, and ...
  
  











  



  
AndrŽ Breton: Selections (Poets for the Millennium, 1)1 review
AndrŽ Breton

University of California Press, 2003

Sheer Surreal Madness

wow! this is a superb collection of poetry and prose by the leader of the surrealist movement,everyones favorite Parisian(aside from Apollinaire)Andre Breton.this collection displays some simplly beautiful and hallucinatory writing.i think my favorite(which is hard to decide)is "choose life",a ...
  
  











  



  
Alcools: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)2 reviews
Guillaume Apollinaire

Wesleyan, 1995

Good, risky new translation.

Guillaume Apollinaire, Alcools (translated by Donald Revell) (Wesleyan, 1995) What is there to review about Alcools itself? It's Guillaume Apollinaire. It was published ninety years ago. It's one of the documents Tristan Tzara was reading obsessively while forming the dada movement, and thus ...