A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems from across the ages inspired by the City of Light
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as has Paris. Poems of Paris covers a wide range of time, from the Renaissance to the present, and includes not only the pantheon of classic French poets, from Ronsard to Baudelaire to Mallarmé, but also tributes by visitors to the city and famous expatriates from all over the world, including Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, Rainer Maria Rilke, Vladimir Nabokov, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, and many more. All the famous sights of Paris are touched on here, from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower, as are such classic Parisian themes as food, drink, and love, and famous events from the Revolution to the Resistance.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781101908129
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date: 03-12-2019
Pages: 256
Product Dimensions: 4.43(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.73(d)
Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
About the Author
EMILY FRAGOS is an award-winning poet and editor of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets anthologies The Great Cat, The Dance, Music's Spell, Art and Artists, Poems of Gratitude, and Letters by Emily Dickinson. She lives in New York City.
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from "Paris in Spring" by Sara Teasdale (Continues…)
THE CITY OF LIGHT GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Trip to Paris BLAISE CENDRARS From The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jeanne of France CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Twilight: Daybreak PAUL VERLAINE The Noise of the Cabarets JULES LAFORGUE Spring Evening on the Boulevards SARA TEASDALE Paris in Spring E.E. CUMMINGS “Paris;this April sunset completely utters” TRISTAN CORBIERE Paris At Night ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Square d’Orleans FRANCOIS COPPEE Paris PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Horizon CHARLES BUKOWSKI Paris HENRI COLE Paris Is My Seroquel RAYMOND QUENEAU Cleanliness GREGORY CORSO Paris HAS PARIS CHANGED? Willis Barnstone EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS Paris Is Beyond Compare
THE SIGHTS LANGSTON HUGHES Montmartre OSCAR WILDE Le Jardin des Tuileries JACQUES ROUBAUD To the Eiffel Tower GALWAY KINNELL Les Invalides JACQUES PREVERT Place du Carrousel FADY JOUDAH Arc de Triomphe OSIP MANDELSTAM Notre Dame RON PADGETT Bastille Day ELIZABETH BISHOP Sleeping on the Ceiling EZRA POUND In a Station of the Metro JEAN TARDIEU The Seine in Paris COUNTEE CULLEN At the Etoile
THE STREETS JACQUES ROUBAUD from Arrondissements MARILYN HACKER Rue des Ecouffes CZESLAW MILOSZ Bypassing Rue Descartes HAROLD NORSE beat hotel, 9 rue git-le-coeur JEAN FOLLAIN From Streets MAX JACOB La Rue Ravignan LEON-PAUL FARGUE At Saint-Germain
PARISIANS FRANCOIS VILLON Ballade of Forgiveness PIERRE REVERDY Street Circus MAURICE ROLLINAT The Mime WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Clochard RITA DOVE The Island Women of Paris AIME CESAIRE The Griffin HEDI KADDOUR The Bus Driver TRISTAN TZARA The great lament of my obscurity three MARIE PONSOT Rain All Night, Paris VICENTE HUIDOBRO Blind GERARD de NERVAL A Path in the Luxembourg JACQUES ROUBAUD Dream of February 11, 19—, Dream of August 17, 19—
THE CITY OF LOVE ROBERT DESNOS I Have Dreamed of You So Much PIERRE de RONSARD From Sonnets pour Helene (40) GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE From Zone MARY JO SALTER Boulevard du Montparnasse ANDRE BRETON The Free Union PAUL ELUARD The Earth Is Blue Like an Orange JACQUES PREVERT Paris at Night, The Garden, Immense and Red GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Le Pont Mirabeau PAUL VERLAINE Il Bacio JEAN GENET From A Song of Love JOYCE MANSOUR I Want to Sleep with You STEPHANE MALLARME “O So Dear From Far Away, So Near and White” PAUL ELUARD Lady Love EDWARD HIRSCH Colette GRACE CAVALIERI Hotel Saint Germain JAMES FENTON In Paris With You EXPATRIATES CESAR VALLEJOBlack Stone On A White Stone MARINA TSVETAEVA In Paris PABLO NERUDA Goodbye to Paris RICHARD WRIGHT From Haiku, This Other World GERTRUDE STEIN From Hotel Francois 1er ZELDA FITZGERALD From Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald ERNEST HEMINGWAY Montparnasse VLADIMIR NABOKOV From Paris Poem LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR In Memoriam RAINER MARIA RILKE “You don’t know nights of love?” JULIO CORTAZAR Le Dome SAMUEL BECKETT Sanies II STANLEY MOSS From Mon Pere, Elegy for Paul Celan NAZIM HIKMET Before the Time Runs Out, My Rose
TOURISTS MONA VAN DUYN At Pere Lachaise VICTORIA KENNEFICK Paris Syndrome LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Plan Du Centre De Paris A Vol D’Oiseau JAMES WRIGHT A First Day in Paris KENNETH KOCH To the French Language DAVID KIRBY To a French Structuralist BILLY COLLINS January in Paris WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Vocabulary CLARENCE MAJOR No One Goes to Paris in August
FOOD & DRINK HANNAH MORE From Florio BARBARA CROOKER Les Boulangers WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY From The Ballad of Bouillabaisse CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Be Drunk PIERRE MARTORY Wine ANTONIN ARTAUD Verlaine Drinks CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The Soul of the Wine
THE ARTS FRANK O’HARA Poulenc JAMES A. EMANUEL Bojangles and Jo LANGSTON HUGHES Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret LUIS LAZARO TIJERINA Chet Baker in Paris JON STALLWORTHY Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge GABRIELA MISTRAL Rodin’s Thinker DELMORE SCHWARTZ From Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon Along the Seine ROBERT HAYDEN Monet’s “Waterlilies” ROSANNA WARREN Renoir JAMES MERRILL For Proust EMILY FRAGOS Theatre de l’Odeon MARK DOTY Couture DAVID LEHMAN French Movie
HOMAGE TO THE POET ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE From To Victor Hugo YVES BONNEFOY Mallarme’s Tomb LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Triste Corbiere STEPHANE MALLARME The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire CESAR MORO Andre Breton GUY GOFFETTE Max Jacob LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI In Paris In A Loud Dark Winter ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A Ballad of Francois Villon YVES BONNEFOY Verlaine’s Tomb RENE CHAR You Did Well To Leave, Arthur Rimbaud! BENJAMIN PERET Portrait of Paul Eluard GERALD STERN Desnos RON PADGETT Little Elegy GAEL TURNBULL Homage to Jean Follain TRISTAN TZARA The Death of Guillaume Apollinaire
REVOLUTION WILLIAM WORDSWORTH From The Prelude, Book 9 VICTOR HUGO From The Year of Horrors, “November 1870, On the Ramparts of Paris, at Nightfall” HEINRICH HEINE Marie Antoinette BENJAMIN PERET Louis XVI Goes To The Guillotine ARTHUR RIMBAUD Parisian War Cry
WAR, OCCUPATION, RESISTANCE BLAISE CENDRARS In Paris JULES SUPERVIELLE Rain and the Tyrants LOUIS ARAGON Richard II Forty PAUL ELUARD Curfew ROBERT DESNOS Rue Saint-Martin Couplets PIERRE REVERDY From The Song of the Dead PAUL ELUARD Courage PAUL ELUARD Liberty JEAN FOLLAIN “There’s no more war”