Founder of the Surrealist movement, André Breton has also come to be recognized as one of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential poets. The inaugural volume in the Poets for the Millennium series, André Breton offers 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.
- ISBN10 0520235843
- ISBN13 9780520235847
- Publish Date 1 October 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 March 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 184
- Language English