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Title: The Nature of Things: Translation of : Le Parti Pris Des Choses by Francis Ponge, Barbara Wright ISBN: 0-87376-080-8 Publisher: Fodor's Travel Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Summary: "Ponge's voice in English"
Comment: The following is the text of a letter from award-winning translator Barbara Wright on Lee Fahnestock's translations of the poetry of Francis Ponge.
I knew nothing of how Francis Ponge's poetry had been presented to Anglo-Saxon readers until I was unexpectedly given Lee Fahnestock's translations of his The Nature of Things and Vegetation. My immediate reaction was: Lee Fahnestock must certainly be "Ponge's voice in English". Several rereadings, and a comparison with the French originals, confirmed this opinion.
Ponge was the first modern poet to be moved to imagine the inner nature of objects - "things". Things animal - vegetable - mineral. Snails - moss - pebbles. Ponge's imagination delves into the very being of the objects, he sees how even the most apparently insignificant of them is an integral part of the world we know, he shows us how the nature of inanimate things is intricately linked to all things animate, to all of us human beings. He made it his lifelong task to use his fastidious felling for words and language to make strange and beautiful poetry out of his vision.
To represent this unusual view in another language, it is evident that the translator must have a deep empathy with the original visionary, and it is clear that this empathy was what urged Lee Fahnestock to make these poems wider known. Ponge's poetic intentions may seem very serious - and they are - but he expresses seriousness in a joyous, often insouciant style, full of humor, lighthearted word play, puns, alliteration, allusions, imaginative contrasts. And I feel that this unique combination has be reproduced with love and understanding by Lee Fahnestock. She gives us Ponge's tones, rhythms, humor. She has maneuvered his word play with respect and unostentatious discretion; she knows how to read between the lines. Here, to my mind, is indeed Ponge in English.
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Title: Dreaming the Miracle: Three French Prose Poets : Max Jacob, Jean Follain, Francis Ponge by Beth Archer Brombert, Mary Feeney, Louise Guiney, William T. Kulik, William Matthews, Max Poems Jacob, Francis Poems Ponge, Jean Poems Follain ISBN: 1893996174 Publisher: White Pine Press (NY) Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Soap (Meridian) by Francis Ponge, Lane Dunlop ISBN: 0804729557 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Vegetation (French Series) by Francis Ponge ISBN: 0873760581 Publisher: Small Pr Distribution Pub. Date: 01 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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