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Encrypting Arcadia poetry by Todd Sanders catalog number: aan10.03 $75.00US + $5.00s/h (US Orders) or $7.50 (Foreign Orders) 11" x 11" limited, numbered edition of 5 copies; 16 pages; papers: arches cover and fabriano, 3 hole pamphlet stitch with hemp cording binding; center tipped in 11" x 30" illustration - oil pastel, pencil and house paint Click on image for larger view of front and inside | ||
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Á la dame si reine translated by Todd Sanders catalog number: aan09.3B $6.00US + $3.00s/h (US Orders) or $7.50 (Foreign Orders) 13" x 19" single page broadside with 2 handprinted linoleum block print image on a cream laid paper, concertina folded. edition of 9 copies. Taken from the book The Secret Book for Youki Click on image for larger view of front and inside |
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Aube/Dawn translated by Todd Sanders and Oonagh Taeger catalog number: aan09.2B $6.00US + $3.00s/h (US Orders) or $7.50 (Foreign Orders) 13" x 19" single page broadside with handprinted linoleum block print image on a cream laid paper, concertina folded. edition of 9 copies. Taken from "Bath with Andromeda" from the book Mythmaking Click on image for larger view of front and inside |
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Voyage en Bourgogne|Voyage in Burgundy translated by Todd Sanders and Oonagh Taeger ISBN:978-0-9679429-5-7 catalog number: aan08.3 $30.00US + $3.00s/h (US Orders) or $7.50 (Foreign Orders) 96 pgs. hardcover with 8 full color plates. limited, numbered edition of 150 copies In the summer of 1930, Robert Desnos, Youki and her then-husband, the Japanese painter Tsuguharu Foujita, along with Foujita's cousin, set out on a walking tour of the Burgundy region of France. This is a memoir of their adventures. |
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Mythmaking The Mythological Poetry of Robert Desnos, translated by Todd Sanders and Oonagh Taeger ISBN:978-0-9679429-4-0 catalog number: aan06.1 $19.95US + $3.00s/h (US Orders) or $7.50 (Foreign Orders) 96 pgs. illustrated hardcover. limited edition of 200 copies An anthology of poems in original French with English translations. Illustrated by Elise Soroka of Pocket Skeleton. from the back cover ... Mythmaking collects Robert Desnos' mythologically themed poems - Le Fard des Argonauts (1919), Minotaure (1930), Bacchus et Apollon (1942), Le Satyr (1942), and the extended poem Le Bain avec Andromède (1944) - several of which appear in English for the first time. These poems span the writing career of Robert Desnos, from his early beginning as a founding Surrealist through the 1940's when he joined the Resistance against the Vichy Government and wrote poetry opposing the German Occupation of France. |
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Calixto by Robert Desnos, read by Todd Sanders, music by Tracy Mortimore catalog number: aan04.2 $5.00US + $1.00 s/h (US Orders) or $3.00 (Foreign Orders) CD This live recording took place on May 1st, 2004 in Pittsburgh. Todd Sanders reads from his translation of 'Calixto' accompanied by double-bassist Tracy Mortimore. This CD includes a reading of the complete text. |
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Calixto by Robert Desnos, translated by Todd Sanders ISBN:0-9679429-3-4 catalog number: aan04.1 $19.95 + $3.00 s/h (US Orders) or $7.50 (Foreign Orders) 64 pgs. hardcover. limited edition of 200 copies In original French with English translations. from the back cover ... Robert Desnos' 1943 poem Calixto, companion to the 1944 collection Contrée, was published in a complete edition by Gallimard in 1962. Calixto is a poem of resistance, epic in scale, combining a narrative language of classicism and Greek mythology with the argot of 1940's Paris. In a world peopled with prostitutes and explorers, victims and murders, Desnos fuses together a poetic elegy, a cry in the darkness against evil unleashed on the world. Also appearing in this volume is Notes Calixto, notes and commentary written by Desnos in the margins of Calixto during its creation. "Inspiring in this skillful English translation by Todd Sanders as it is in the original French, Calixto conveys Desnos's vivid portrayal of a changeable figure eager to encourage human beings to cling to their lives and their humanity in the face of tremendous odds" - Katharine Conley - Author of The Marvelous in Everyday Life: Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and French Culture |
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The Secret Book for Youki and Other Poems by Robert Desnos, translated by Todd Sanders ISBN:0-9679429-2-6 catalog number: aan01.1 $22.95 + $3.00 s/h (US Orders) or $7.50 (Foreign Orders) 64 pgs. hardcover. limited edition of 200 copies 25 poems in original French with English translations. from the back cover ... Christened Youki, Japanese for 'pink snow', Lucie Badoul lived in Montparnasse in the 1920's and 30's where she was a model for, and later wife of, the Japanese painter Tsuguharu Foujita. On October 31, 1931, after a long and stormy relationship with Youki, Foujita left for Brazil, leaving her the following farewell note - 'I don't have any more strength to fight in Paris .... Let me have the simple life which I dream of .... You now have a faithful friend, Robert .... who has taken my place and for him you are the dearest person in the world.' The poems in this volume have been taken from two collections that Desnos wrote for Youki: The Secret Book for Youki composed in November of 1932, and selections from 1930 Youki Poèsie, completed in 1934. These are love poems for Youki as well as poems about what it means to love. |
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The Circle and the Star by Robert Desnos, translated by Todd Sanders ISBN:0-9679429-0-X catalog number: aan00.1 $70.00 + $3.00 s/h (US Orders) or $7.50 (Foreign Orders) 64 pgs. letterpress hardcover with handprinted woodcut illustrations. limited edition of 100 copies, signed by translator 18 poems in original French with English translations, with four original woodcut illustrations by Elise Soroka (of Pocket Skeleton) and Sarah Marshall. Robert Desnos (1900-1945) was one of the Surrealist movement's leading poets, praised by Andre Breton for playing a "necessary, unforgettable role." Combining humor and pathos, dreams and reality, Desnos work is typified by its verbal techniques and independent spirit. In 1930 he broke from the Surrealists and for a decade wrote motion picture and radio scripts, including the highly successful Complainte de Fantomas (1933). Arrested for his activity in the French Resistance, he was eventually deported to Czechoslovakia and died of typhus shortly after his camp was liberated. For an article on The Circle and the Star published in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, click here. |