The Centenary Corbière

Direct, colloquial, and allusive, these poems evoke the peasants and sailors of Brittany and the bohemians and prostitutes of Paris in a vivid, fast-paced language that transformed the Modernist, Symbolist, and Surrealist movements, and influenced Pound, Eliot and the poetry of both England and America. This parallel-text edition enables the reader to experience the poet's innovative wordplay firsthand, and the introduction by the translator provides essential contextualization.

Tristan Corbière was a 19th-century French poet and the author of Les Amours Jaunes. Val Warner is the author of Before Lunch and Under the Penthouse and the editor of The Collected Poems and Prose of Charlotte Mew. She is the recipient of a Gregory Award, a former creative writing fellow at the University College of Swansea, and a former writer in residence at the University of Dundee.