Selected Poems, Bilingual edition
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The influential French poet, Symbolist leader, and Decadent Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was recognized as a groundbreaking writer even in his own lifetime—his stylistic innovations brought a new musicality to French poetry and paved the way for free verse and other twentieth-century techniques and experiments. This selection of poems, with the French text en face, provides a comprehensive selection of Verlaine's verse together with a lucid introduction illuminating his life and works.
A Street in Bronzeville3kitchenette building3the mother4southeast corner5hunchback girl: she thinks of heaven5a song in the front yard6the ballad of chocolate Mabbie7the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon8Sadie and Maud8the independent man9of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery10the vacant lot11The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith12Negro Hero19gay chaps at the bar22still do I keep my look, my identity ...23my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell23looking24piano after war24mentors25the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men25firstly inclined to take what it is told26"God works in a mysterious way"27love note I: surely27love note II: flags28the progress28Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood33Clogged and soft and sloppy eyes33Chicken, she chided early, should not wait33After the baths and bowel-work, he was dead34Late Annie in her bower lay34The duck fats rot in the roasting pan35"Do not be afraid of no"36But can see better there, and laughing there37Think of sweet and chocolate38You need the untranslatable ice to watch50The Certainty we two shall meet by God51Oh mother, mother, where is happiness51The Womanhood52People who have no children can be hard52What shall I give my children? who are poor53And shall I prime my children, pray, to pray?53First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string54When my dears die, the festival-colored brightness54Life for my child is simple, and is good55Sweet Sally took a cardboard box56A light and diplomatic bird57Carried her unprotesting out the door58They get to Benvenuti's. There are booths59The dry brown coughing beneath their feet61And if sun comes62One wants a Teller in a time like this63People protest in sprawling lightless ways64Men of careful turns, haters of forks in the road65In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father69My Little 'Bout-town Gal70Strong Men, Riding Horses71The Bean Eaters72We Real Cool73Old Mary74A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi, Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon75The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till81Mrs. Small82Jessie Mitchell's Mother85The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock87The Lovers of the Poor90A Sunset of the City94A Man of the Middle Class96The Crazy Woman99Bronzeville Man with a Belt in the Back100A Lovely Love101A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary102Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat103In Emanuel's Nightmare: Another Coming of Christ107The Ballad of Rudolph Reed110Riders to the Blood-red Wrath115The Empty Woman119To Be in Love120Of Robert Frost122Langston Hughes123A Catch of Shy Fish124garbageman: the man with the orderly mind124sick man looks at flowers124old people working (garden, car)125weaponed woman125old tennis player125a surrealist and Omega126Spaulding and Francois126Big Bessie throws ber son into the street127About Gwendolyn Brooks129
