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Product Description Paul Eluard (1895-1952) is widely considered to be one of France's most important poets. This bilingual edition translates Eluard's marvelous books of Last Love Poems composed during 1946-1951. Included is an enlightening introduction covering Eluard's later works. Review ...This is a milestone English-language presentation of an important Surrealist writer. ― Library Journal ...A translation which is always reliable, and most sensitive to the original language when it most needs to be, one leaves 'Phoenix,' and Eluard's poems as a whole, with renewed awe at their unitary simplicity and grace. -- PN Review (UK) ... .Kallet's translations are very good, and she has written a useful introduction that places in its personal, linguistic, and aesthetic context the last work of this poet. . . ― Booklist About the Author Marilyn Kallet is the author of eleven other books. She holds the Hodges Chair for Distinguished Teaching in English at the University of Tennessee. She resides in Knoxville, TN.