The deftness and creativity manifested in the translation do justice to one of the major works of contemporary French literature. Jean-Jacques Thomas Through translations by two major contemporary poets and a scholar intimate with the Ponge canon, this volume offers selections of mostly earlier poetry Le parti pris des choses, Pièces, Proêmes, and Nouveau nouveau receuil as representative of the strongest work of this modern French master who is recognized as one of the finest French poets of his time. Bilingual; translated by Margaret Guiton, John Montague, and C.K. Williams