#poetry french

[pascalstar]

A book translated from a 2010-2021 project in english poetry. translated in french standard canadian in 2019 and just now, in 2024, with edition, for this edition. 28 pages. get yours and leave a review!

[y2kaee]

"I was looked at,

but I wasn't seen."

Albert Camus, The misunderstanding.

[fawnaura]

Charles Baudelaire, from Modern Poets of France: An Anthology; “Hymn to Beauty”

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jules Lefebvre (1836-1911) "Sappho" Oil on canvas

[metamorphesque]

"The Curve of Your Eyes", Paul Éluard (translation by John Lyons)

[mournfulroses]

Jules Laforgue, from Modern Poets of France: An Anthology; "Solo by Moonlight,"

[twoloversandabeachcomber]

Albert Camus and his cat, Cigarette

[the-evil-clergyman]

Angelique by Léopold Burthe (1852)

[thepaintedchateau]

...sunlight spills in a flood...like a hundred golden urns pouring from the sun...

[thefourofdiamondsart]

The king ran to embrace him;

more than a hundred times

he hugs and kisses him.

As soon as he got a chance

he gave him back all of his land;

he gave him more than I’m telling you.

“Bisclavret” by Marie de France, 12th C.

Prints available here!

[exhaled-spirals]

— Yves Bonnefoy, Poems: 1959-1975 (trans. Richard Pevear)

[snow-angel-777]

warm vanilla perfume. cinnamon chai tea, hot chocolate and lattes. pumpkin spice pecans. comfy sweaters. mary janes and tights. snickerdoodles and cinnamon buns. pastry inspired candles. reading near misty windows. orange leaves crunching. lips masks and hand creams. it’s finally autumn.

[intopermanence]

Who to rent myself out to? What beast should I adore? What sacred image is being attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lie must I maintain? — What blood shall I trample?

Arthur Rimbaud, trans. by Mark Polizzotti, from A Season in Hell: “Bad Blood”

[daweyt]

Cassandre Di Angelo, from “Thus Saith The Lord: Book II."

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Horace Vernet (1789-1863) "The Ballad of Lenore, or The Dead Travel Fast" Oil on canvas The painting is inspired by the ballad Lenore (1774) written by German author Gottfried August Bürger. In the poem, it is the end of the Seven Years' War, and Lenore is waiting for her fiancé; he appears in the night on a black horse, promising to marry her before dawn. But upon arriving at the cemetery, the horse rider is revealed to be a skeleton wearing armor.

[metamorphesque]

"Song of Autumn", Charles Baudelaire (translated by William Aggeler)