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This bilingual anthology introduces English-speaking readers to a selection of french poetry written by women since about 1975. The work of fifteen poets has been selected, together with translations along the originals, including poems by Christiane Baroche, Claude de Burine, Louise Herlin, Jo-Ann Leon, Gisele Prassinos, Amina Said, Celine Zins and Genevieve Bon.

ISBN 0859894487   Pages 240 ISBN13 9780859894487 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher University of Exeter Press   Weight (grammes) 325 Imprint University of Exeter Press   Language English & French Format Paperback   Published in Exeter Publication date 01 Oct 1995   Series editor Hartmann, R.R.K. Non-book description book   Series title Exeter linguistic studies Translator Martin Sorrell   Height (mm) 211 Library of Congress PQ1170.E6E   Width (mm) 133 DEWEY 841.00809287   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY edition DC20   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Introduction by Martin Sorrell		1
		Marie-Claire Bancquart		11
		Christiane Baroche		25
		Genevieve Bon		38
		Claude de Burine		50
		Andree Chedid		63
		Louise Herlin		77
		Jeanne Hyvrard		89
		Leslie Kaplan		105
		Josee Lapeyrere		116
		Jo-Ann Leon		131
		Anne Portugal		147
		Gisele Prassinos		158
		Jacqueline Risset		173
		Amina Said		187
		Silvia Baron Supervielle		198
		Marguerite Yourcenar		211
		Celine Zins		225
		Epilogue by Jacqueline Chenieux-Gendron		235
		Afterword (English version of the Epilogue)		245
		Index of Titles and First Lines		255
		Acknowledgements		258

"This exciting new collection, the first of its kind to introduce a powerful selection of contemporary French poetry by women to an anglophone audience, is much more than an anthology. Martin Sorrell presents the question of gender and universality in poetry in a dialogue of fminine/fministe voices, both well-known poets such as Chedid, Hyvrard and Yourcenar and their company of lesser-known sisters. His sensitive introduction and translations, which above all seek to respect and do justice to the tongue of each woman poet, take full account of the question, ''Could and should a man translate and publish a selection he had made of women''s poems?''(page 6, his emphasis). Sorrell''s response is the very unencapsulating mode of both his selection, the way in which he sets his translation alongside the original poem in the context of her viewpoint on herself and poet and on poetry, and the listening quality of his translation Jacqueline Chnieux-Gendron''s afterword pinpoints the diversity of these poets, but their common voice, the touch of women''s tongues, is sure and tender. But so, too, as this book clearly demonstrates, may be the voice of the translator la Sorrell(e). This book, then, sets new and high standard for poetry anthologies and translations of poetry." -Forum for Modern Language Studies, 1997

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