{"product_id":"poemes-saturniens-book-paul-verlaine-9782035842664","title":"Poemes saturniens","description":"\u003cp\u003eKarl Kirchwey's translations of early Verlaine are true to the emotional coloring and musicality of the originals, their Baudelairean ambiguities of feeling, their exciting mixture of dictions. 'Classic Walpurgisnacht' is one of many renderings which seem to me masterly.\u003cb\u003e--Richard Wilbur, author of \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems, 1943-2004\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully attentive to Verlaine's moods and melodies, Kirchwey catches the harmonies and dissonances, the tenderness, bile, and rage, of Verlaine's astonishing first book of poems. With its learned introduction and notes, this translation is a work of art of the first order: a perfect introduction to the young Verlaine for readers who do not know French, and a graceful meditation on Verlaine's poetics for readers who have long known and loved the poems in the original.\u003cb\u003e--Rosanna Warren, author of \u003ci\u003eDeparture: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these \u003ci\u003ePoems Under Saturn\u003c\/i\u003e, Verlaine's early 'self I was then' springs out strangely and inventively. Yet they feel like now.\u003cb\u003e--Mary Ann Caws, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a historical event in the translation of lyric verse--the first valuable English version of Paul Verlaine's first and best book.\u003cb\u003e--Richard Howard, author of \u003ci\u003eInner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttentive both to precise and shaded meanings, Kirchwey's careful translations find the true Verlaine in verse respectful of the original rhyme schemes.\u003cb\u003e--Martin Sorrell, University of Exeter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50297226690833,"sku":"GOR009911491","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52109161595153,"sku":"GOR009909517","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2035842662.jpg?v=1750998401","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/poemes-saturniens-book-paul-verlaine-9782035842664","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}