Amers Explained

Amers
Author:	Saint-John Perse
Orig Lang Code:	fr
Translator:	Wallace Fowlie
Country:	France
Language:	French
Genre:	Poetry
Publisher:	Nouvelle Revue Française
Pub Date:	16 May 1957
English Pub Date:	1961
Pages:	187
Isbn:	2070256758
Dewey:	841.92
Congress:	PQ2623 .E386
Preceded By:	Vents (1946)
Followed By:	Chronique (1960)

Amers in French pronounced as /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]

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Notes and References

1. The Image of the Threshold in the Poetry of Saint-John Perse. Little, Roger. 1969. The Modern Language Review. 64. 4. 777–792. 10.2307/3723920. 3723920.
2. Web site: Amers. Seamarks ... Bilingual edition. Translation by Wallace Fowlie. (Second edition, third printing.) Fr. & Eng. Saint John. PERSE (pseud.). November 9, 1964. Bollingen Foundation. Google Books.
3. Web site: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1960. NobelPrize.org.
4. Prolific the Image, and the Metre, Prodigal. Knodel, Arthur J.. 1958. The Hudson Review. 11. 3. 437–442. 10.2307/3848620. 3848620.
5. Book: Fowlie, Wallace. Poem and Symbol: A Brief History of French Symbolism. November 1, 2010. Penn State Press. Google Books. 978-0271038131.
6. Vowels of the Sea: Amers, by Saint-John Perse. Guicharnaud, Jacques. Beckelman, June. 1958. Yale French Studies. 21. 72–82. 10.2307/2928996. 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. Web site: Les 100 livres du vingtième siècle d'après Le Monde - Liste de 95 livres - SensCritique. www.senscritique.com.