Martin Sorrel is Professor of French, University of Exeter.

• Introduction by Martin Sorrell1. Marie-Claire Bancquart2. Christine Baroche3. Genevieve Bon4. Claude de Burine5. Andree Chedid6. Louise Herlin7. Jeanne Hyvrard8. Leslie Kaplan9. Josee Lapeyrere10. Jo-Ann Leon11. Anne Portugal12. Gisele Prassinos13. Jacqueline Risset14. Amina Said15. Silvia Baron Supervielle16. Marguerite Yourcenar17. Celine ZinsEpilogue by Jacqueline Chenieux-GendronAfterword (English version)Index of Titles and First LinesAcknowledgements

This exciting new collection, the first of its kind to introduce a powerful selection of contemporary French poetry by women to an anglophone audience, is much more than an anthology. Martin Sorrell presents the question of gender and universality in poetry in a dialogue of féminine/féministe voices, both well-known poets such as Chedid, Hyvrard and Yourcenar and their company of lesser-known sisters. His sensitive introduction and translations, which above all seek to respect and do justice to the tongue of each woman poet, take full account of the question, 'Could and should a man translate and publish a selection he had made of women's poems? Sorrell's response is the very unencapsulating mode of both his selection, the way in which he sets his translation alongside the original poem in the context of her viewpoint on herself and poet and on poetry, and the listening quality of his translation Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron's afterword pinpoints the diversity of these poets, but their common voice, the touch of women's tongues, is sure and tender. But so, too, as this book clearly demonstrates, may be the voice of the translator à la Sorrell(e). This book, then, sets new and high standard for poetry anthologies and translations of poetry.

Martin Sorrel is Professor of French, University of Exeter.

• Introduction by Martin Sorrell1. Marie-Claire Bancquart2. Christine Baroche3. Genevieve Bon4. Claude de Burine5. Andree Chedid6. Louise Herlin7. Jeanne Hyvrard8. Leslie Kaplan9. Josee Lapeyrere10. Jo-Ann Leon11. Anne Portugal12. Gisele Prassinos13. Jacqueline Risset14. Amina Said15. Silvia Baron Supervielle16. Marguerite Yourcenar17. Celine ZinsEpilogue by Jacqueline Chenieux-GendronAfterword (English version)Index of Titles and First LinesAcknowledgements

This exciting new collection, the first of its kind to introduce a powerful selection of contemporary French poetry by women to an anglophone audience, is much more than an anthology. Martin Sorrell presents the question of gender and universality in poetry in a dialogue of féminine/féministe voices, both well-known poets such as Chedid, Hyvrard and Yourcenar and their company of lesser-known sisters. His sensitive introduction and translations, which above all seek to respect and do justice to the tongue of each woman poet, take full account of the question, 'Could and should a man translate and publish a selection he had made of women's poems? Sorrell's response is the very unencapsulating mode of both his selection, the way in which he sets his translation alongside the original poem in the context of her viewpoint on herself and poet and on poetry, and the listening quality of his translation Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron's afterword pinpoints the diversity of these poets, but their common voice, the touch of women's tongues, is sure and tender. But so, too, as this book clearly demonstrates, may be the voice of the translator à la Sorrell(e). This book, then, sets new and high standard for poetry anthologies and translations of poetry.

Martin Sorrel is Professor of French, University of Exeter.

• Introduction by Martin Sorrell1. Marie-Claire Bancquart2. Christine Baroche3. Genevieve Bon4. Claude de Burine5. Andree Chedid6. Louise Herlin7. Jeanne Hyvrard8. Leslie Kaplan9. Josee Lapeyrere10. Jo-Ann Leon11. Anne Portugal12. Gisele Prassinos13. Jacqueline Risset14. Amina Said15. Silvia Baron Supervielle16. Marguerite Yourcenar17. Celine ZinsEpilogue by Jacqueline Chenieux-GendronAfterword (English version)Index of Titles and First LinesAcknowledgements

This exciting new collection, the first of its kind to introduce a powerful selection of contemporary French poetry by women to an anglophone audience, is much more than an anthology. Martin Sorrell presents the question of gender and universality in poetry in a dialogue of féminine/féministe voices, both well-known poets such as Chedid, Hyvrard and Yourcenar and their company of lesser-known sisters. His sensitive introduction and translations, which above all seek to respect and do justice to the tongue of each woman poet, take full account of the question, 'Could and should a man translate and publish a selection he had made of women's poems? Sorrell's response is the very unencapsulating mode of both his selection, the way in which he sets his translation alongside the original poem in the context of her viewpoint on herself and poet and on poetry, and the listening quality of his translation Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron's afterword pinpoints the diversity of these poets, but their common voice, the touch of women's tongues, is sure and tender. But so, too, as this book clearly demonstrates, may be the voice of the translator à la Sorrell(e). This book, then, sets new and high standard for poetry anthologies and translations of poetry.