Complete Poems

by Blaise Cendrars

Book Overview

Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. The full range of his poetry--from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor--offers a challenge no translator has accepted until now.

Here, for the first time in English translation, is the complete poetry of a legendary twentieth-century French writer. Cendrars, born Frederick Louis Sauser in 1887, invented his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520065808
• ISBN13: 9780520065802
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.8"