Rosemary Lloyd, Editor, Stephane Mallarme, Author University of Chicago Press $55 (265p) ISBN 978-0-226-48841-7
If you suspect that Mallarme, the French Symbolist poet, wrote letters as aloof and impersonal as his chiseled verse, you are entirely wrong. His letters are playful, passionate, moody, generous, tender. They reveal both the mature poet and a...
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Stephane Mallarme, Author, Sta1/2phane Mallarma1/2, Author, St?phane Mallarm?, Author University of California Press $55 (300p) ISBN 978-0-520-08188-8
To be translated, the work of Mallarme must be transmuted, leading to a poetry just as weirdly and irreducibly English as his is in French. But alchemical operations are conducted according to rules, and poet Weinfield (Sonnets Elegiac and Satirical)
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St%C3%A9phane Mallarm%C3%A9, trans. from the French by Jeff Clark and Robert Bononno. Wave (Consortium, dist.), $25 (96p) ISBN 978-1-940696-04-1
French poet Mallarmé's 1897 text, both a poem and a work of visual art, has long been heralded as the very beginning of the international avant-garde. Writers for decades have seen its amazements: sentences broken up and reassembled, words in many...
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Stephane Mallarme, Author, Mary Ann Caws, Editor, Malcolm Bowie, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $14.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1451-3
While St phane Mallarm wrote as much prose as poetry, little of that side of his writing has made its way into English. Caws (who also edited St phane Mallarm : Selected Poetry and Prose) and five other translators contribute letters, articles,...
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