Vegetation

by Francis Ponge

Poetry. Translated from the French by Lee Fahnestock. Francis Ponge's VEGETATION is a short grouping of pieces originally published in his book Le Parti Pris des Choses in 1942. Interested in the copulation of things and words, Ponge aimed to bring a materiality of language to surface. Lee Fahnestock is a critic and translator who has contributed to a new version of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and completed a later work of Ponge's in translation, The Making of the Pre.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873760581
• ISBN13: 9780873760584
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Red Dust
• Length: 20 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"