Malarme, Stephane

Collected Poems with: Ephemera

ISBN: 0520081889
Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. The moon was grieving, Seraphim in tears, / Musing in the calm of vaporous flowers, / Were drawing, bow in hand, from sad violas / Sobbing glissandos over blue corollas. / It was the blessed day of your first kiss. / My reverie, enraptured by the abyss, / Imbibed its wisdom from the sad perfume / Which even the dreams we gather in full bloom / Distill within the heart that gathers them. / My eyes on the worn stones, I wandered then, / When suddenly you happened to appear, / Laughing, with evening sunlight in your hair; / And I thought I saw the fairy with the cap / Of light, who passed before my infant sleep, / Opening her hands to scatter through the years / Snowy bouquets of richly scented stars.”--Stephane Mallarme, "Apparition," pg. 7. Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Mallarmé was also recognized as one of France’s four major poets of the second half of the 19th century, along with Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), and Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). Much of his poetry was acknowledged to be difficult to understand because of its tortuous syntax, ambiguous expressions, and obscure imagery. Offered today is the 1994 Stephane Mallarme: Collected Poems, translated by Henry Weinfield (b. 1949). This bi-lingual edition features each poem rendered in English on the left-hand side of the page and the original French on the right, as well as Weinfield's commentary which magnificently renders the historical context for the modern reader for each period of Mallarme's writing. The full poetic oeuvre of the master French poet, Stephane Mallarme: Collected Poems is an incredible presentation of one of the most important poets of the 19th century to a modern, English-speaking audience for more or less the first time. From the collection of Laurence Goldstein (1943-2023), poet, editor, and professor at the University of Michigan. We have found and retained between front cover and first blank leaf a number of pages cut out of the April 11th, 2016 issue of The New Yorker, centered around an article on translating Mallarme by Alex Ross. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. First edition though not explicated as such at copyright page, first printing as indicated by number sequence thereon. Book in very fine condition with only minor wear to fine edges. Dust jacket in fine-very fine condition with minor wear to fine edges, and mild smudging/scratching/staining to front and back covers. Very Fine / Fine-Very Fine. [Item #9137]

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