San Antonio College Library

A selection of outstanding contemporary French verse in bilingual edition, a volume designed to put the American reader in touch with the most vital currents in the French poetry of our own day. The editor contributes a stimulating introduction, tracing the development of the spirit and manner of French verse through the royal line of Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine and Rimbaud, to their worthy successors in the twentieth century.

Not since the publication of Paul Auster's The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry in the English-speaking world. Here for the first time is a comprehensive bilingual representation of French poetic achievement in the twentieth century, from the turn-of-the-century poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire to the high modernist art of Samuel Beckett to the contemporary...