{"product_id":"queneau-raymond-hitting-th","title":"Queneau, Raymond: Hitting the Streets","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarcanet Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Rachel Galvin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: August 01, 2013\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Taxi drivers, street sweepers, a bouquiniste, unsuccessful prostitutes, a menaced bicycle rider, noisy children, an old woman shunted aside in a crowd, and some disgruntled animals at the zoo populate these poems. Unreeling like a series of clips recorded during a stroll through Paris, the book is wickedly funny, but it is also a bittersweet meditation on how \"the river of forgetfulness carries away the city.\" This is the poet's love letter to Paris--a Paris that is always in the process of becoming superannuated. Rachel Galvin's lively, idiomatic version is the first complete translation available in English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817258332183,"sku":"9781847771575","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71aJpWo77lL._SL1000.jpg?v=1773959165","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/queneau-raymond-hitting-th","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}