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  • André Breton: Selections

    André Breton by Breton, André; Polizzotti, Mark;

    Selections

    Series: Poets for the Millennium;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher University of California Press
    • Date of Publication 23 September 2003

    • ISBN 9780520235847
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages184 pages
    • Size 215x146x19 mm
    • Weight 368 g
    • Language English
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    Founder of the Surrealist movement, André Breton has also come to be recognized as one of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential poets. The inaugural volume in the Poets for the Millennium series, André Breton offers the most comprehensive selection available in English of Breton's poetry, along with a selection of his major prose writings. The translations, a number of which are published here for the first time, are by some of the most notable poets in our language, including David Antin, Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Michael Benedikt, Robert Duncan, David Gascoyne, and Charles Simic. This volume also includes an extensive biographical and thematic introduction by Mark Polizzotti, which sets the poems in the context of Breton's life and overall career.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction: Phrases Knocking at the Window by Mark Polizzotti
    Key to Translators

    POEMS
    Merry
    Way
    Age
    Black Forest
    For Lafcadio
    Mister V
    The Mystery Corset
    from The Magnetic Fields
    Counterfeit Coin
    PSST
    No Way Out of Here
    In the Eyes of the Gods
    Choose Life
    Sunflower
    Angle of Sight
    from Soluble Fish
    Make it so daylight . . .
    I Listen to Myself Still Talking
    The Writings Depart
    The Forest in the Axe
    No Grounds for Prosecution
    After the Giant Anteater
    Free Union
    Curtain Curtain
    Vigilance
    A Branch of Nettle Enters through the Window
    Lethal Relief
    In the lovely half-light of 1934 . . .
    It was going on five in the morning . . .
    Always for the first time . . .
    Full Margin
    from Fata Morgana
    War
    Dreams
    Korwar
    Rano Raraku
    On the Road to San Romano (version 1)
    On the Road to San Romano (version 2)
    Le La
    Documents
    Subject
    The New Spirit
    The Disdainful Confession
    Three Dreams
    from Manifesto of Surrealism
    Burial Denied
    from Second Manifesto of Surrealism
    Simulation of General Paralysis Essayed
    The Automatic Message

    Chronology
    Acknowledgments
    Selected Bibliography

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