Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard

Marilyn Kallet is the author of eleven other books. She holds the Hodges Chair for Distinguished Teaching in English at the University of Tennessee. She resides in Knoxville, TN.

• 1 Preface Part 2 1. The Firm Desire to Endure 3 To Marc Chagall 4 By a Kiss 5 Order and Disorder of Love 6 The Movement of Evening 7 Even When We Sleep 8 Belle 9 Lay of Love 10 Lay of the Power of Love 11 Tale of a Day 12 From Detail to Detail 13 A Single Smile 14 Ideal Body 15 From Solitude to Solitude Towards Life 16 From the Depths of the Abyss 17 Grandeur of Yesterday and Today 18 Since It Is No Longer a Question of Force 19 Here 20 Seasons 21 Our Movement Part 22 II. Time Overflows 23 I Am Still Alive 24 The Power of Hope 25 A Living Person Speaks for the Dad 26 Ecstasy 27 By Virtue of Love 28 November twenty-eighth nineteen forty-six 29 The Limeits of Grief 30 My Living Dead One 31 Negation of Poetry 32 Gilded 33 Our Life 34 Vivante et morte separee 35 The Quick and the Dead Separated 36 Our Life Part 37 III. Memorable Body 38 Grain of Sand of My Salvation 39 Portrait in Three Tableaux 40 Between the Moon and the Sun 41 Of One and Two, of Everyone 42 Since It Is a Must 43 Without Future 44 Rehearsals Very Close to Exacting Sleep 45 But She 46 I Imagined You 47 Youth Begets Youth 48 Ready for Resurrecting Kisses 49 To the Infinite 50 A Pound of Flesh 51 I Speak in Dream Part 52 IV. The Phoenix 53 The Phoenix 54 Dominique Present Today 55 Lively Air 56 Spring 57 I Love You 58 Certitude 59 We Two 60 Death Love Life 61 Song 62 One Must Really Believe It 63 About an Animal 64 And a Smile 65 Serenity 66 Matins 67 Seascape

...This is a milestone English-language presentation of an important Surrealist writer. Library Journal ...A translation which is always reliable, and most sensitive to the original language when it most needs to be, one leaves 'Phoenix,' and Eluard's poems as a whole, with renewed awe at their unitary simplicity and grace. -- PN Review (UK) ... .Kallet's translations are very good, and she has written a useful introduction that places in its personal, linguistic, and aesthetic context the last work of this poet... Booklist