David R. Slavitt, award-winning author of more than 100 books of poetry and prose, translates the work of Charles Marie Ren Leconte de Lisle, a French poet associated with the Parnassian movement. "To look at Leconte de Lisle now," writes Slavitt in the book's introduction, "is to discover a sensibility strikingly similar to that of Elizabeth Bishop (with Africa instead of Brazil as his mise en sc ne). In some ways, he reminds me, too, of Wallace...
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