Translations
Available online
- Yves Bonnefoy, "The Museum" and "They Spoke to Me", Poetry, November 2014
- Aimé Césaire, "Manifesto: 1942" at PEN, 2013
- René Char:
- Poems in Pith, Summer 2000 (vol. 2, no. 2)
- The Companions in the Garden, Here's to the Snake, Jacquemard and Julia, Not to be Understood, The Shark and the Seagull, and The Library is On Fire, all in The Brooklyn Rail's poetry section, Dec 07/Jan 08 issue
- Colette "I Love Being a Gourmande," The Brooklyn Rail, November 2014
- Robert Desnos "I've Dreamt of You So Often," read for National Poetry Day at the Oxford Brookes University Poetry Centre
- Lorand Gaspar:
- "Approach of the Word," The Brooklyn Rail, April 2, 2015
- Two poems from Earth Absolute and Other Texts, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2015
- Ghérasim Luca, "The Resting Whirlwhind" (book trailer for Ghérasim Luca: Self-Shadowing Prey, Contra Mundum Press, 2012)
- Stéphane Mallarmé, "Igitur," at Studio Cleo
- Pierre Reverdy, "Belle Étoile / Under the Stars," at Brindin Press (1991)
- Raymond Roussel, "Bertha, The Child-Flower"
- Jacques Roubaud, "Among Many Poems" in Poetry, October 2000
- Tristan Tzara (et al), "Dada Manifesto" at RALPH, Early Mid-Summer, 2001 (vol. 25, no. 4)
Monographs
- Shapeshifter (Alice Paalen Rahon), New York Review Books, 2021
- Pierre Reverdy: Poems Early to Late (Pierre Reverdy, edited by Caws, tr. Caws and Patricia Terry), Black Widow Press, 2015
- Earth Absolute and Other Texts (Lorand Gaspar, tr. Mary Ann Caws and Nancy Kline), Contra Mundum Press, 2015
- Self-Shadowing Prey (Ghérasim Luca), Contra Mundum Press, 2012
- Furor & Mystery and Other Poems (René Char, translated and edited by Nancy Kline and Caws), Black Widow Press, 2011
- The Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos: A Bilingual Anthology, Black Widow Press, 2007
- Capital of Pain (Paul Eluard, newly translated and edited by Caws, Nancy Kline, and Patricia Terry), Black Widow Press, 2006
- Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology (revised edition, with additional poems; translated and edited by Jean-Pierre Cauvin and Caws), Black Widow Press, 2006
- Ostinato (Louis-René des Forêts, translated and with a preface by Caws), University of Nebraska Press, 2001
- Mallarmé in Prose (Stéphane Mallarmé, edited and co-translated by Caws), New Directions, 2001
- Break of Day (André Breton, edited and co-translated by Caws), University of Nebraska Press, 1999
- Selected Poems of René Char (translated and edited by Caws and Tina Jolas), New Directions, 1991
- Selected Poems of Pierre Reverdy (edited and co-translated by Caws), Wake Forest University Press, 1991
- Antonin Artaud: Portraits and Drawings, (Jacques Derrida and Paule Thevenin, translated and with a preface by Caws), Abbeville Press, 1990; abridgement published as The Secret Art of Antoinin Artaud, MIT Press, 1998
- Robert Motherwell (Marcelin Pleynet), Rizzoli International, 1990; Daniel Papierski, 1990
- Communicating Vessels (André Breton), University of Nebraska Press, 1989
- Mad Love (André Breton), University of Nebraska Press, 1988
- Selected Poems of St-John Perse, New Directions, 1982
- Cinéma calendrier du coeur abstrait: Maisons (Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp), Thomas Press, 1983
- Poems of André Breton (co-translated by Caws and Jean-Pierre Cauvin), University of Texas Press, 1982 (reprinted 1991)
- Selected Poetry and Prose (Stéphane Mallarmé, translated and edited by Caws), New Directions, 1982
- Roof Slates and Other Poems of Pierre Reverdy (co-translated by Caws and Patricia Terry), Northeastern University Press, 1981
- Poems of René Char (co-translated by Caws and Jonathan Griffin), Princeton University Press, 1976
- Approximate Man and Other Writings (Tristan Tzara, translated and edited by Caws), Wayne State University Press, 1974; revised edition, Black Widow Press, 2005
Shorter Works
- Nicole Brossard, "Leaps of Silence Clinging to the Eyelashes," in Provincetown Arts 2005
- Contemporary Poetry in French, special issue of Poetry, 2002
- Yves Bonnefoy, "Igitur and the Photographer," part I and Yves Peyré, "Inscription of the Highest Dream," in A Painter's Poet: Stéphane Mallarmé and his Impressionist Circle, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1999
- Yves Bonnefoy, "Igitur and the Photographer," part II, PMLA, May 1999 (vol. 114 no. 3)
- Victor Hugo, for Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces (6th expanded edition), 1995
- René Char, for Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness, Norton, 1992
- René Char's "Visage nuptial" ("The Nuptial Countenance") and "Le marteau sans maître" ("The Hammer with No Master") for Pierre Boulez Concerts, January 1989
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