Amers

Amers
	First edition cover
Author	Saint-John Perse
Translator	Wallace Fowlie
Language	French
Genre	Poetry
Publisher	Nouvelle Revue Française
Publication date	16 May 1957
Publication place	France
Published in English	1961
Pages	187
ISBN	2070256758
Dewey Decimal	841.92
LC Class	PQ2623 .E386
Preceded by	Vents (1946)
Followed by	Chronique (1960)

Amers [a.mɛʁ] is a collection of poetry by French writer Saint-John Perse, published in 1957.^[1]^[2] Perse won the Nobel Prize in Literature three years later.^[3]

The title means "sea marks" (points used to navigate at sea, both manmade and natural); it possibly puns on the French amer(s), "bitter",^[4]^[5] perhaps meaning "briny" here,^[6] and has echoes of mer, "sea".^[7]

Amers was ranked #97 in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century.^[8]

References

^ Little, Roger (1969). "The Image of the Threshold in the Poetry of Saint-John Perse". The Modern Language Review. 64 (4): 777–792. doi:10.2307/3723920. JSTOR 3723920.
^ PERSE (pseud.), Saint John (November 9, 1964). "Amers. Seamarks ... Bilingual edition. Translation by Wallace Fowlie. (Second edition, third printing.) Fr. & Eng". Bollingen Foundation – via Google Books.
^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960". NobelPrize.org.
^ Knodel, Arthur J. (1958). "Prolific the Image, and the Metre, Prodigal". The Hudson Review. 11 (3): 437–442. doi:10.2307/3848620. JSTOR 3848620.
^ Fowlie, Wallace (November 1, 2010). Poem and Symbol: A Brief History of French Symbolism. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0271038131 – via Google Books.
^ Guicharnaud, Jacques; Beckelman, June (1958). "Vowels of the Sea: Amers, by Saint-John Perse". Yale French Studies (21): 72–82. doi:10.2307/2928996. JSTOR 2928996.
^ Little, Roger. "The Image of the Threshold in the Poetry of Saint-John Perse." The Modern Language Review 64, no. 4 (1969): 777-92. Accessed February 4, 2020. doi:10.2307/3723920.
^ "Les 100 livres du vingtième siècle d'après Le Monde - Liste de 95 livres - SensCritique". www.senscritique.com.

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[1] Little, Roger (1969). "The Image of the Threshold in the Poetry of Saint-John Perse". The Modern Language Review. 64 (4): 777–792. doi:10.2307/3723920. JSTOR 3723920.

[2] PERSE (pseud.), Saint John (November 9, 1964). "Amers. Seamarks ... Bilingual edition. Translation by Wallace Fowlie. (Second edition, third printing.) Fr. & Eng". Bollingen Foundation – via Google Books.

[3] "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960". NobelPrize.org.

[4] Knodel, Arthur J. (1958). "Prolific the Image, and the Metre, Prodigal". The Hudson Review. 11 (3): 437–442. doi:10.2307/3848620. JSTOR 3848620.

[5] Fowlie, Wallace (November 1, 2010). Poem and Symbol: A Brief History of French Symbolism. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0271038131 – via Google Books.

[6] Guicharnaud, Jacques; Beckelman, June (1958). "Vowels of the Sea: Amers, by Saint-John Perse". Yale French Studies (21): 72–82. doi:10.2307/2928996. JSTOR 2928996.

[7] Little, Roger. "The Image of the Threshold in the Poetry of Saint-John Perse." The Modern Language Review 64, no. 4 (1969): 777-92. Accessed February 4, 2020. doi:10.2307/3723920.

[8] "Les 100 livres du vingtième siècle d'après Le Monde - Liste de 95 livres - SensCritique". www.senscritique.com.

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