Editions de la revue Fontaine, Paris, 1945
Description: Paris: Editions de la Revue Fontaine, 1945; First Edition Thus (combining two 1943 Algiers publications); original tan wraps with dark blue, red and tan printed dust jacket and protective mylar cover; collector's copy with many of the 217 pages still uncut. Text in French. Prefaces by Andre Gide, de Wahl, Julien Green, De Rougemont, and Max-Pol Fouchet.
This is the first book-form printing of a collection of poems and writings by the most important US writers of the time. It was originally published in two issues during wartime in Algiers and includes works in translation by T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Agee, Conrad Aiken, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, John Steinbeck ("Le meutre"), William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, William Saroyan, Adelaide Crapsey, Hermann Hagedorn, Sara Teasdale, Robinson Jeffers, Horace Gregory, Lola Ridge, Louise Bogan, Carl Sandburg, Kenneth Pathchen, e.e. cummings, William Carlos Williams and many others.
Condition: Very Good in tanned wrappers with many pages still uncut, in a Near Very Good Dust Jacket that has some chips to edges including, visibly, to the top spine / front corner, now protected with a new Brodart cover.
Additional Information: André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". He befriended Oscar Wilde in Paris, and in 1895 Gide and Wilde met in Algiers, where these writings were originally published.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France. She knew Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky and Henri Matisse, the young American artists who were living in Paris in the 1920's and 1930's. She is credited with coining the term "the Lost Generation" referring to the young men and women who lived through World War I.
John Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Much of Jeffers' poetry was written in narrative and epic form, but he is also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the environmental movement. His poems have been translated into many languages and published all over the world. William Everson, Edward Abbey, Robert McDowell, Gary Snyder, and Mark Jarman are just a few recent authors who have been influenced by Jeffers. Charles Bukowski remarked that Jeffers was his favorite poet. Polish poet Czesław Miłosz also took an interest in Jeffers' poetry and worked as a translator for several volumes of his poems.
One of American literature’s foremost poets, Marianne Moore’s poetry is characterized by linguistic precision, keen and probing descriptions, and acute observations of people, places, animals, and art. Her poems often reflect her preoccupation with the relationships between the common and the uncommon, as well as advocate discipline in both art and life, and espouse restraint, modesty, and humor.
Lola Ridge, born Rose Emily Ridge (1873-1941 Brooklyn) was an Irish-American anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She is best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences, published in numerous magazines and collected in five books of poetry. Along with other political poets of the early Modernist period, Ridge has received renewed critical attention since the beginning of the 21st century and is praised for writing poetry from harsh urban life. A new selection of her poetry was published in 2007 and a biography in 2016.
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