"An essential, vibrant collection of masterful translations by one of the finest poets at work today.... This book presents his versions of, among others, the c

This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converg

'The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. . .' Rimbaud was sixteen when he made this famous declaration.

The second volume in a landmark two-volume selection of John Ashbery's translations focuses on prose writing. Ashbery's prose writings and engagement with prose

This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English transl