Preversities: A Jacques Prevert Sampler

Prevert, Jacques; Shapiro, Norman R. (translator); Mehlman, Jeffrey (introduction)

ISBN 10: 0981808824 / ISBN 13: 9780981808826

Published by Black Widow Press, Boston, MA, 2010

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472pp. Tiny name dated 2010 at head of first page.

Seller Inventory # PB123639

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Preversities: A Jacques Prevert Sampler
• Publisher: Black Widow Press, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0981808824
• ISBN 13: 9780981808826
• Binding: Card Wrappers
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry Bookshop Catalogue

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Synopsis

Comprehensive sampler of Jacques Prevert's poetry. Prevert (1900-1977) is one of the most widely read poets in France. Over one million copies of his poetry books have been published and his poems appear in countless anthologies worldwide. Bilingual edition, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. The most comprehensive anthology of Prevert's poems to appear in English.

About the Author

Jacques Pr vert (1900-1977) was a surrealist, visual artist, and author of several well-known film scripts. His many books of poetry include Paroles, Chose et Autres and Histories. Harriet Zinnes is a poet, short-story writer and literary and art critic. Her collections of poetry include An Eye for an I, I Want to See Something Flying, and Entropisms.

Norman R. Shapiro is professor of Romance languages and literatures at Wesleyan University. He has translated numerous collections of French poetry and theater, including "Selected Poems from "Les Fleurs du mal"" and "One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine," both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Jeffrey Mehlman is University Professor at Boston University and the author, most recently, of Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on His Radio Years and Genealogies of the Text: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France.