An essential, vibrant collection of masterful translations by one of the finest poets at work today
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Collected French Translations: Poetry," half of a long-awaited two-volume collection of translations by America's foremost living poet, surveys John Ashbery's lifelong love of French poetry. [...]

"By the end of the book, Ashbery has laid out not only a course in contemporary poetics but a portrait of the artist teaching himself to become a thoroughly Modernist poet---in small bites, easy to savor, easy to digest."
---"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"This is a marvelous book by one of [...]