L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune

L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune (The Imitation of Our Lady the Moon) (1886) is a collection of poems by the French poet Jules Laforgue. It is dedicated to Gustave Kahn and "to the memory of little Salammbô, priestess of Tanit". It contains the following twenty-two poems:

• "Un mot au Soleil pour commencer"
• "Litanies des premiers quartiers de la lune"
• "Au large"
• "Clair de lune"
• "Climat, faune et flore de la lune"
• "Guitare"
• "Pierrots"
• "Pierrots (On a des principes)"
• "Pierrots (Scène courte mais typique)"
• "Locutions des Pierrots"
• "Dialogue avant le lever de la lune"
• "Lunes en détresse"
• "Petits mystères"
• "Nuitamment"
• "États"
• "La lune est stérile"
• "Stérilités"
• "Les linges, le cygne"
• "Nobles et touchantes divagations sous la lune"
• "Jeux"
• "Litanies des derniers quartiers de la lune"
• "Avis, je vous prie"

English translations

Selections from L'Imitation have been translated by William Jay Smith and Graham Dunstan Martin, and in its entirety by Peter Dale.

References

• Laforgue, Jules (1956). Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue. Trans. William Jay Smith. New York: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
• Laforgue, Jules (1999). Jules Laforgue: Selected Poems. Trans. Graham Dunstan Martin. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-043626-X.
• Laforgue, Jules (2001). Poems. Trans. Peter Dale. London: Anvil Press. ISBN 0-85646-322-1.

External links

• The complete text of L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune (in French)