First published in 1958, this collection introduced an
indispensible corpus of western poetry to countless American
college students, francophiles, and would-be poets -- among them
Patti Smith, whose vocation was formed she says, by reading this
book. The poetic and cultural tradition forged by the Symbolist
poets -- Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Appollinaire, and others --
reverberated throughout the avant garde and counter-cultures of the
twentieth century. Modernism, surrealism, abstract impressionism,
and the Beat movement are unthinkable without the example of these
poets and their theories of art, making this reissue possibly the
hippest "dead white European male" anthology ever published.
Including translations by Richmond Lattimore, W. S. Merwin,
Dudley Fitts, and Richard Wilbur, this anthology has stood the test
of time in terms of its selection and scholarly apparatus. Now back
in print after twenty years in a fresh new edition, the book
features an introduction by Patti Smith that testifies to its
epochal impact on her own career, as well as those of other
influential latter-day poets, including Lou Reed and Jim Carroll.
This rediscovered gem is sure to inspire a new generation.
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