In After Prevert, the best poems from Prevert's landmark post-World- War-II collection Paroles come alive in Barbarese's snappy twenty-first-century American English. Like a good translator, Barbarese manages to convey the spirit of Pr???vert and his stark vision of the human condition, and like a good poet, Barbarese makes the poems new for our times. -Geoffrey Brock, editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry
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In After Prevert, the best poems from Prevert's landmark post-World- War-II collection Paroles come alive in Barbarese's snappy twenty-first-century American English. Like a good translator, Barbarese manages to convey the spirit of Pr???vert and his stark vision of the human condition, and like a good poet, Barbarese makes the poems new for our times. -Geoffrey Brock, editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry
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