Jules Laforgue

Jan 3, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Jules Laforgue |Dorianne Laux |Anne Carson |Michael Ondaatje

Safaa Fathy, trans. from the Arabic by Rawad Z. Wehbe. Litmus, $22 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-933959-73-3Presented in English alongside the original Arabic, this expansive selection of poems by Fathy (Al Haschische) draws from four collections published between 1989 and 2010.

Dec 1, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Jules Laforgue |mark ford |Janani Ambikapathy

The 19th-century French symbolist poet Jules Laforgue may not be well-known in the Anglosphere, but some of the poems featured in Lunar Solo, translated by Mark Ford, will likely be familiar to readers of T.S. Eliot: I smoke, spread out Beneath the evening sky on the top-deck Of a careering stagecoach, every bone In my body rattling, jangling — but my soul Is a dancing Ariel, my soul Beyond such resemblances, a delightful strangeness trails these poems in Ford’s translation.