Review (PDF) Zone: Selected Poems
Zone is the fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett’s fifty-year engagement with the work of France’s greatest modern poet. This bilingual edition of Apollinaire’s poetry represents the full range of his achievement from traditional lyric verse to the pathbreaking visual poems he called calligrams, from often-anthologized classics to hitherto-untranslated gems, from poems of cosmic breadth to a poem about his shoes. Including an introduction by the distinguished scholar Peter Read, helpful endnotes, a preface, and an annotated bibliography by Padgett, this new edition of Apollinaire stands out not only for its compact and judicious selection of the essential poems but also as the work of an important American poet. The Washington Post has said, “No praise can be too high for Ron Padgett’s translations.”
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: NYRB Poets; Tra edition (November 24, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590179242
ISBN-13: 978-1590179246
Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 0.7 x 7.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Best Sellers Rank: #221,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #22 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Regional & Cultural > European > French
Very good translation. Better than my old edition by Anne Hyde Greet (which isn't bad, by any means, but she fails to capture A's rhyme schemes; Padgett does this well, no clumsiness or awkward choices). And besides, all poetry in another language should be read in at least 2 translations, in my opinion, and P. provides signficantly different version.
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