The Tallness of Moonlight
Will be published approx. on 23. February 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-56689-770-9 (ISBN)
Description
A new perspective on critically-acclaimed poet Ron Padgett. The Tallness of Moonlight is at once a celebration of Padgett's decades-long translation work and his particular taste in avant-garde poetics. Spanning millennia and the globe, this anthology of translations pays special attention to the French greats: Apollinaire, Gautier, Mallarmé, Cendrars. From prose poems to visual poems to theatrical scenes, Padgett's collection is a love letter to the act of translation itself.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
ISBN-13
978-1-56689-770-9 (9781566897709)
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Ron Padgett's How Long was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry, and his Collected Poems won the LA Times Prize for the best poetry book of 2014 and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He has also received the Shelley Memorial Award and the Frost medal from the Poetry Society of America. His translations include Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars's Complete Poems. Seven of his poems were used in Jim Jarmusch's film Paterson. New York City has been his home base since 1960.