Howls & Growls: French Poems to Bark by (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781733892407)

NORMAN R. SHAPIRO, honored as one of the leading contemporary translators of French, holds the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University and, as Fulbright scholar, the Diplôme de Langue et Lettres Françaises from the Université d'Aix-Marseille. He is Professor of Ro mance Languages and Literatures, Distinguished Pro - fessor of Literary Translation, and Poet-in-Residence at Wesleyan University and is currently Theater Adviser at Adams House, Harvard University. His many published volumes span the centuries, medieval to modern, and the genres: poetry, novel, and theater. Among them are Four Farces by Georges Feydeau; The Comedy of Eros: Medieval French Guides to the Art of Love; Selected Poems from Baudelaire's 'Les Fleurs du Mal'; One Hundred and One Poems of Paul Verlaine (recipient of the Modern Language Association's Scagli one Award); Negritude: Black Poetry from Africa and the Carib bean; and Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana. OLGA K. PASTUCHIV is a children's book author, painter, and commercial illustrator of everything from murals, parade floats, and theater backdrops to printed materials such as a postcard for the St. Nicholas Anapafsas Monastery in Greece. She has illustrated a cook- book, Culinary Potions by Eve Berman; the award-winning children's book Riparia's River by Michael J. Caduto (Tilbury House); and several botany and poetry collections including Cricket Weather by Anthony Walton (Blackberry Press), Crossing To Aranmor and Find A Place by Glenn Shea (Vortex Press) in addition to the poster for his reading at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris. Most recently, she illustrated Fables in a Modern Key and Fables of Town & Country, Pierre Coran's two collec- tions translated by Norman R. Shapiro (Black Widow Press), as well as Shapiro's Fe-Lines: French Cat Poems Through the Ages (University of Illinois Press).