{"product_id":"andre-breton-selections-volume-1-paperback","title":"André Breton: Selections Volume 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndré Breton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMark Polizzotti\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMark Polizzotti\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFounder of the Surrealist movement, Andr  Breton has also come to be recognized as one of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential poets. The inaugural volume in the \u003ci\u003ePoets for the Millennium \u003c\/i\u003eseries, \u003ci\u003eAndr  Breton \u003c\/i\u003eoffers the most comprehensive selection available in English of Breton's poetry, along with a selection of his major prose writings. The translations, a number of which are published here for the first time, are by some of the most notable poets in our language, including David Antin, Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Michael Benedikt, Robert Duncan, David Gascoyne, and Charles Simic. This volume also includes an extensive biographical and thematic introduction by Mark Polizzotti, which sets the poems in the context of Breton's life and overall career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a kind of essence of Breton\", variously translated by some of our finest writers, each of whom highlights different facets of Breton's complex work. Mark Polizzotti's useful introduction provides context and a brief analysis of the artist and his times.\"--Diane di Prima, author of \u003ci\u003eRecollections of My Life as a Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mark Polizzotti, who is a poet, a translator, and the author of the definitive biography of André Breton, has chosen stellar translations of Breton's dazzling poetry and placed it in its lively context. This shapely introduction to the life and work of André Breton is smart, concise, and exciting. I cannot imagine a better one.\"--Ron Padgett, poet and translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Poems of Blaise Cendrars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Poets for the Millennium Series generally and André Breton's \u003ci\u003eSelected Works\u003c\/i\u003e specifically offers a workable image of an author and the work and the conjuncture, all at once. What comes across is a vivid presentation of Andre Breton not just as an art czar, a manifesto merchant, but a serious, haunted, inventive and strangely profound poet of the imagination, who invented or archeologized new ways of dreaming, but insisted on bearing witness with them in the actual world. Polizzotti does justice--as I think no other writer has--to the double burden of Breton's work.\"--Robert Kelly \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A superbly chosen selection of Breton's poetry and prose, translated in every case with an elegant intelligence, and preceded by an unusually thorough introduction showing quite exactly how the poet's life informed each epoch of his work. It proves again the remarkable un-boringness of Breton, and how important he is now to our own poetry and to us.--Mary Ann Caws, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Surrealist Painters and Poets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Polizzotti \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eRevolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton (\u003c\/i\u003e1995), \u003ci\u003eLautréamont Nomad \u003c\/i\u003e(1994), \u003ci\u003eThe New Life: Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(1998), and \u003ci\u003eS: a novel \u003c\/i\u003e(1997). He has translated the work of André Breton, René Daumal, Jean Echenoz, and Marguerite Duras, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.24 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45424784867430,"sku":"9780520239548","price":72.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Nit3UVNscDFQN1ZHUnQ1d3M0T0FiQT09.webp?v=1775609435","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/andre-breton-selections-volume-1-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}