Ebook: Azure: Poems and Selections from the “Livre”

During his lifetime, Stéphanie Mallarmé (1842-1898) was recognized as one of the greatest modern French poets. He wrote extensively on themes of reality and his desire to turn away from it, marrying form and content in revolutionary ways that departed drastically from the more tightly controlled French tradition. Despite his status as one of the first modernists, much of Mallarmé's radicalism has been lost in translation. Finally, in this new collection by Blake Bronson-Bartlett and Robert Fernandez, the magic and mastery of form and diction so striking in Mallarmé's French verse comes to life in English. Drawing from Poésies (1899 edition), Un coup de dés (A cast of dice), and the "Livre" (the "Book"--The overarching conceptual work left unfinished at the death of the poet), this collection captures Mallarmé's true linguistic brilliance, bringing the poems into our current context, while retaining the music, playfulness, and power of the originals. -- from back cover.;Poésies [Edition Deman, 1899] -- Salut -- Hex -- Apparition -- Hopeless plea -- This worked-over clown -- Windows -- Flowers -- Renewal -- Anguish -- "Tired of my indolence ..." -- The bell ringer -- Summertime sadness -- The azure -- Sea breeze -- Sigh -- Alms -- Their desirable gift -- Hérodiade [scene] -- The afternoon of a faun [Eclogue] -- "Lock of hair ..." -- Saint -- Funeral toast -- Prose [for des Esseintes] -- Fan [of Mme. Mallarmé] -- Other fan [of Mlle. Mallarmé] -- Scrap, as for an album -- Remembrance of Belgian friends -- Street song I (The shoemaker) -- Street song II (Herb vendor) -- Ticket -- Tune 1 ["So alones (choose)"] -- Tune II ["My drives"] -- Various sonnets -- Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe -- Tomb of Charles Baudelaire -- Tomb (Anniversary -- January 1897) -- Homage [Wagner] -- Homage [Puvis de Chavannes] -- "To you colonist ..." -- I -- II -- III -- "What blam-of-time-silk ..." -- "Straight to your story ..." -- "Red fire lozenge ..." -- "Leaves seal the name ..." -- A cast of dice -- From the "Livre."