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1. Selected Poems
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2. Soap (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
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3. Mute Objects of Expression
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4. Dreaming the Miracle: Three French
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5. Francis Ponge: De L'Ecriture a
 
6. Testimony of the Invisible Man;
 
7. Francis Ponge: The Power of Language
 
$58.74
8. Art of Criticism of Francis Ponge
 
9. Francis Ponge (Twayne's world
 
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10. Ten Poems of Francis Ponge Translated
 
$43.68
11. L'ane musicien: Sur Francis Ponge
 
12. Francis Ponge (Les Plumes du temps)
 
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13. Francis Ponge: LA Poetique Du
 
14. L'objet du texte et le texte-objet:
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15. Francis Ponge and the Nature of
 
16. Francis Ponge (Les Dossiers Belfond)
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17. Francis Ponge
 
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18. Francis Ponge (Athlone French
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19. Guide d'un petit voyage dans l'euvre
 
20. Francis Ponge: Actes ou textes

1. Selected Poems
by Francis Ponge
Paperback: 232 Pages (1994-06)
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Asin: 0916390586
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars Major Screw-up
Why are the first three reviews on "Francis Ponge - Selected Poems not about Francis Ponge poems in this book, but rather about William Carlos Williams and C.K. Williams poetry?I mean, these men are good poets but let's review the right book guys.

4-0 out of 5 stars Excellently translated introduction to unclassifiable master
Francis Ponge may not yet be a household name, but his famous admirers include the likes of Sartre, Robbe-Grillet and Calvino.It was the latter who introduced me to the poet, whose work is generally classified as being concerned with language, and with things (his most famous collection is called 'Siding with things'), including pebbles, crabs and cigarettes.

Ponge composed mostly in prose poems, and with his direct, precise language, he should be the easiest of foreign poets to translate.He is, however, one of the most difficult, because his 'direct' and 'precise' vocabulary is anything but - like Joyce, Ponge scrapes the banalities from words, and forces us to reconsider the exact meanings of them, their etymologies and implications.This can transform or complicate the poems' meaning completely, but as French words have a different versatility to English ones, the linguistic subtlety isn't always apparent in translation.

this makes the achievement of the three translaters here, all poets, the more admirable, as they catch much of Ponge's rhythmic, tonal and playful art.The poems themselves are marvels of revelation, recreating everyday objects like they never before existed, as the poet journeys through language into their usually ignored essence.You emerge determined to be more observant in future, to be more receptive to life.

5-0 out of 5 stars Great selection, great translation
It's a shame that Francis Ponge is not more widely read in America.It's an even bigger shame that so much of his work is left untranslated for the American reader.The two slim volumes translated by Lee Fahnstock, Nature ofThings and Vegetation, are fine translations of his earliest work, and the1998 Lane Dunlop translation of Soap should also be considered must-readbooks.But this selected poems is a much better introduction to FrancisPonge.The book presents Ponge's prosepoems in both English and the originalFrench in facing-pages translation.The translations are excellent, andthe selection from Ponge's entire catalogue represents the vast diversityof style and length, while constantly including only the most remarkablepoems.Unless you read French and can track down Ponge's complete works inthe original language, and until his work is translated completely,Guiton's edition is the best one could hope for. ... Read more


2. Soap (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Francis Ponge
Paperback: 104 Pages (1998-07-01)
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Asin: 0804729557
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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“. . . And now, dear reader, for your intellectual toilet, here is a little piece of soap. Well handled, we guarantee it will be enough. Let us hold this magic stone.”

The poet Francis Ponge (1899-1988) occupied a significant and unchallenged place in French letters for over fifty years, attracting the attention and admiration of generations of leading intellectuals, writers, and painters, a notable feat in France, where reputations are periodically reassessed and undone with the arrival of new literary and philosophical schools.

Soap occupies a crucial, pivotal position in Ponge’s work. Begun during the German occupation when he was in the Resistance, though completed two decades later, it determined, according to Ponge, the form of almost all his postwar writing. With this work, he began to turn away from the small, perfect poem toward a much more open form, a kind of prose poem which incorporates a laboratory or workshop, recounting its own process of coming into being along with the final result. The outcome is a new form of writing, which one could call “processual poetry.” Ponge’s later work, from Soap on, is a very important tool in the questioning and rethinking of literary genres, of poetry and prose, of what is literature.

There is a blurring of boundaries between Soap and soap (which was hard to come by during the Resistance and is also, of course, metaphorical for a larger social restitution). Soap contains the sum of Ponge’s aesthetics and materialist ethics and his belief in the supremacy of language as it becomes the object of the text. In the words of Serge Gavronsky, “this work, perhaps one of the longest running metaphors in literature, slowly unwinds, bubbles in verbal inventions, and finally evaporates, leaving the water slightly troubled, slightly darker, but the hands clean, really clean. . . . Out of murky literary habits, Ponge has devised a way of cleaning his text, and through it, man himself, his vocabulary, and as a consequence, his way of being in the world.”

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4-0 out of 5 stars Ponge's signature
Soap is different from Ponge's other work. He is best known as the author of many brief, well-crafted prose poems which take the form of minute observations on natural and manmade objects. This book, as the title implies, is also an observation on a common household object.

This work is not merely a prose poem, although it contains elements of prose poetry. It is comprised of (fictional?) radio addresses, a short dramatic piece, correspondence, notebook extracts and other narrative forms culled from twenty years of occasional writing on one topic: the nature of soap.

The whole work is a metaphor on the relationship between soap and language. There are affinities between language and soap, their artificiality, their cleansing power, their slipperiness, etc. But these metaphorical connections are not explicitly expressed by Ponge - they are everywhere implied. The fragments of writing here are like bubbles, containing the same substance but constantly changing form ever so slightly. The form relates quite well to the content.

What Ponge has found here is a subject whose nature corresponds almost exactly to his writing style and his narrative method - perhaps this is what motivated him to linger over this particular piece for twenty years and to elaborate and refine it to an extent unfamiliar in his other works. This work, more than any other, displays the virtues and the virtuosity of Ponge.

I give the book four stars mostly because of the presentation. It's a handsome edition and the translation is quite good. But it is a slim volume (about 75 pages of text) and it would have been extremely worthwhile for the publisher to have included the French text on facing pages. Most prospective purchasers of this volume have probably more than a nodding acquaintance with French, since Ponge is known to American readers largely through the influence he has had on other writers and thinkers like Robbe-Grillet or Derrida. Because Ponge relies so much on wordplay and etymological affinities, the French text would have been useful. ... Read more


3. Mute Objects of Expression
by Francis Ponge
Paperback: 165 Pages (2006-03-01)
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Asin: 0976395037
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In Mute Objects of Expression, Francis Ponge proclaims his goal: to accept the challenge that things—-objects—offer to language. These objects and scenes are perceived with unique Pongean art and humor in this volume centering on the unoccupied southern Loire countryside, where his family lived from 1940 to 1943. Because of wartime shortages, much of the book was drafted in a small notebook that made up his sole supply of paper. The poems recall the voices of Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams and evoke the violent perfume of the mimosa, the cries of carnations, and the flirtations of wasps. He is moved to explore a shadowy town square glimpsed from a bus window. But “to conquer this landscape of Provence? That would be too much!” claimed Ponge. Mute Objects of Expression is one of Ponge’s most important and beloved volumes.

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4. Dreaming the Miracle: Three French Prose Poets: Max Jacob, Jean Follain, Francis Ponge
Paperback: 192 Pages (2002-02-01)
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Asin: 1893996174
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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A selection of work by four of the fathers of prose poetry, the French writers Max Jacob, Jean Follain, and Francis Ponge. Baudelaire laid the foundations for prose poetry as a genre in the 19th century; these poets expanded the concept in the first half of the 20th century. Jacob (1876-1944) was a writer of surrealist cubist fables, Ponge (1899-1988) was a master of the language of things, and Follain (1903-1971) merged the everyday with the historical to create a world rich in anniversaries. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Modern Masters of the French Prose Poem
The prose poem is something of a French specialty. Edgar Allan Poe may have coined the term, but it was Poe's French translator Charles Baudelaire who first "dreamed of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhyme, supple and muscular," and became the first of many fine French poets to excel in this oxymoronic genre. "Dreaming the Miracle" brings together a sampling of the work of three masterful French prose poets of the 20th Century: the surrealist Max "the Nut" Jacob (1876-1944), the first great poet to apply dream logic to poetic composition; Francis Ponge (1899-1988), the "would-be encyclopedist" of the poetry of the ordinary object; and (one of the great finds of the last century) Jean Follain (1903-1971), an obscure judge who wrote exquisite vignettes that collectively comprise an intimate albeit anonymous autobiography of the last century.

The Jacob and Ponge translations seem a little uneven at times, but the poetry shines through nonetheless. The translations of Follain's prose poems, beautifully rendered by Mary Feeney and the late, great poet William Mathews, are an unadulterated delight. Since the publisher neglected to put any sample pages up on the Amazon website, let me rectify the omission by quoting a representative prose poem from each poet:


Max Jacob: The Beggar Woman of Naples

When I lived in Naples, there was a beggar woman at my palace gate I'd toss a coin to before getting into my carriage. One day, surprised that she never thanked me, I looked at her. As I did, I saw that what I'd mistaken for a beggar woman was a green wooden crate containing some red earth and a few half-rotten bananas.


Francis Ponge: The Pleasures of the Door

Kings do not touch doors.
They know nothing of this pleasure: pushing before one gently or brusquely one of those large familiar panels, then turning back to replace it--holding a door in one's arms.
The pleasure of grabbing the midriff of one of these tall obstacles to a room by its porcelain node; that short clinch during which movement stops, the eye widens, and the whole body adjusts to its new surrounding.
With a friendly hand one still holds on to it, before closing it decisively and shutting oneself in--which the click of the tight but well-oiled spring pleasantly confirms.


Jean Follain: Untitled

Store windows start to light up: displays that banish thoughts of war or hunger, huge dolls with lifelike lashes, eyelids that close. A storefront with shining jewels catches your eye. A white wall takes on a greengage tint. A gutter along the sidewalk seems to be running with a red liqueur instead of dirty water. Absinthe green smoke floats up from muted roofs. There's a passerby who's never written a word except his signature, using a beat-up wooden holder. He senses this bursting beauty. And the man with a terrible temper, seeing his hand turned orange by the sunset, falls silent before his household who fear him, maybe even forgive him his fits. ... Read more


5. Francis Ponge: De L'Ecriture a L'Oeuvre (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures) (French Edition)
by Annick Fritz-Smead
Hardcover: 150 Pages (1997-04)
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Asin: 0820431354
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6. Testimony of the Invisible Man; William Carlos Williams, Francis Ponge, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda.
by Nancy Willard
 Hardcover: 200 Pages (1970-06)
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Isbn: 0826200842
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7. Francis Ponge: The Power of Language
 Hardcover: 277 Pages (1979-07-13)
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Isbn: 0520034414
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8. Art of Criticism of Francis Ponge (MHRA Texts & Dissertations) (MHRA Texts and Dissertations)
by Robert H. Jordan
 Paperback: 136 Pages (1994-12-31)
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Asin: 0901286397
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This study of Francis Ponge's essays on contemporary artists (L'Atelier contemporain) attempts to broaden the popular view of the author as a poet of objects. It explores Ponge's perception of art criticism as an inherently problematic genre and exposes the inhibitions surrounding the production of the essays.The study demonstrates how Ponge's essays on artists parallel developments in his other works. They are seen as instrumental in his movement towards open texts and a stress on the creative process itself, as well as opportunities to reaffirm his philosophical and aesthetic stance. ... Read more


9. Francis Ponge (Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 577 : France)
by Martin Sorrell
 Hardcover: 155 Pages (1990-01-01)

Isbn: 0805764194
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10. Ten Poems of Francis Ponge Translated by Robert Bly & Ten Poems of Robert Bly Inspired by the Poems of Francis Ponge
by Francis Ponge, Robert Bly
 Paperback: 52 Pages (1990-05)
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Asin: 0920635040
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11. L'ane musicien: Sur Francis Ponge (NRF essais) (French Edition)
by Gerard Farasse
 Paperback: 187 Pages (1996)
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Asin: 2070744213
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12. Francis Ponge (Les Plumes du temps) (French Edition)
by Serge Koster
 Paperback: 148 Pages (1983)

Isbn: 285199302X
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13. Francis Ponge: LA Poetique Du Figural (American University Studies Series II, Romance Languages and Literature) (French Edition)
by Annette Sampon
 Hardcover: 241 Pages (1989-03)
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Asin: 0820406171
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14. L'objet du texte et le texte-objet: La chevre de Francis Ponge (Entailles) (French Edition)
by Thomas Aron
 Paperback: 125 Pages (1980)

Isbn: 2201015325
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15. Francis Ponge and the Nature of Things: From Ancient Atomism to a Modern Poetics
by Patrick Meadows
Hardcover: 172 Pages (1997-11)
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Asin: 0838753604
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16. Francis Ponge (Les Dossiers Belfond) (French Edition)
by Claude Evrard
 Paperback: 259 Pages (1990)

Isbn: 2714424937
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17. Francis Ponge
by Francis Ponge, Philippe Sollers
Paperback: 190 Pages (2001-02-23)
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Asin: 2232121798
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18. Francis Ponge (Athlone French Poets)
by Ian Higgins
 Hardcover: 155 Pages (1979-06)
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Asin: 0485146126
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19. Guide d'un petit voyage dans l'euvre de Francis Ponge (Savoirs mieux) (French Edition)
by Gerard Farasse
Paperback: 120 Pages (1999)
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Asin: 2859395962
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20. Francis Ponge: Actes ou textes (Collection Objet) (French Edition)
by Jean-Marie Gleize
 Unknown Binding: 166 Pages (1984)

Isbn: 2859392424
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