After Pre¿vert

In After Pre´vert, the best poems from Pre´vert'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 Prévert 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