Stone Lyre

Author: René Char
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932195781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Rene Char is the conscience of modern French poetry and also its calm of mind. Nancy Naomi Carlson, in these splendid translations, casts new light upon the sublime consequence of Char's poetic character, and in Stone lyre the case for sublimity is purely made." ---Donald Revell, poet and translator of Rimbaud and Apollinaire --

Selected Poems of René Char

Author: René Char
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211918
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
"The Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet's wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, the editors have chosen the voices of seventeen poets and translators (Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Cid Corman, Eugene Jolas, W.S. Merwin, William Carlos Williams, and James Wright, to name a few), in homage to a writer long held in highest esteem by the literary avant-garde." From Amazon.

The Inventors

Author: René Char
Publisher: French List
ISBN: 9780857423245
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Gathered by the translator as a companion volume to René Char's war-time journal, Hypnos: Notes from the French Resistance (1943-44), these 40 poems are a representative cross-section of the poet's mature work."--Book jacket.

The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

Author: Marie Howe
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393346986
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73

Book Description
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth Berg Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And how does one live in Ordinary Time—during those apparently unmiraculous periods of everyday trouble and joy?

Hypnos

Author: René Char
Publisher: French List
ISBN: 9780857422170
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Based on a journal the author kept during his time in the Maquis, this book ranges in style from abrupt and sometimes enigmatic reflections, in which the poet seeks to establish compass bearings in the darkness of Occupied France, to narrative descriptions that throw into vivid relief the dramatic and often tragic nature of the issues he had to confront as the head of his Resistance network. A tribute to the individual men and women who fought at his side, this volume is also a meditation on the white magic of poetry and a celebration of the power of beauty to combat terror and transform our lives.

The Brittle Age

Author: René Char
Publisher: Counterpath Press
ISBN: 1933996110
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French by Gustaf Sobin. When Gustaf Sobin arrived in France at the age of twenty-seven in 1963, he befriended the poet Rene Char, who, as Sobin writes, "taught me my trade." "Rene Char taught me, first, to read particulars: that the meticulously observed detail, drawn from nature, could provide the key to the deepest reaches of the imaginary. One and the other, the visible and the invisible, were but the interface of a single, singular, vibratory surface: that of the poem itself." THE BRITTLE AGE AND RETURNING UPLAND are two volumes from Char's work of the mid to late 1960s that Sobin chose to translate in full. Here, side by side with Char's French text, it is possible to see Sobin building his poetic vocabulary within and as a result of the practice of his mentor, "scrupulously tracking the very trajectories of desire, [leading] one onto the sonorous landscapes of the revelatory."

I've Heard the Vultures Singing

Author: Lucia Perillo
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595340920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Acclaimed poet and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Lucia Perillo, a former park ranger who loved to hike the Cascade Mountains alone and prided herself on daring solo skis down the wild slopes of Mount Rainier, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was in her thirties. I've Heard the Vultures Singing is a clear-eyed and brazenly outspoken examination of her life as a person with disabilities. In unwavering and witty prose, and without a trace of self-pity, she contemplates the bitter ironies of being unable to walk, what it’s like to experience eros as a sick person, how to lower one’s expectations for a wilderness experience, and how to deal with the vagaries of a disease that has no predictable trajectory. Masterfully written, the essays resonate with lovers of literature and nature, and with anyone who has dealt with disadvantages of the body or the hard-luck limitations of ordinary life.

Armenian Poems

Author: Alice Stone Blackwell
Publisher: Pantianos Classics
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
The rich and bountiful poetry of Armenia is presented in this collection, adeptly and sensitively translated to English to preserve the expressive beauty in the verses. Armenian poems are rich with passionate expression, sometimes voicing pride in the national culture, history and identity. Some of the poems are outright romantic; celebrating the beauty, aesthetics and emotive intensity of youthful courtship. Other verses celebrate Armenia's martial prowess; with differing cultures on multiple sides, the land often saw battle. The importance of the country's location at the border between the European and Asian continents finds allusion, as authors nod to past glories, and predict future prowess. Reference to the scenic lands of Armenia, its local dances and the way of life abound in the verse, the poetry often brimming with cultured allusions. Significantly, this anthology includes the most famed and celebrated works by the lauded national poets, together with older poetry and hymns dating back as far as the early-Medieval era. The reader thus acquires an acute impression of how Armenian poetic works evolved through the centuries.

The Plath Cabinet

Author: Catherine Bowman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
Catherine Bowman writes this book of poetry to explain and illustrate the life and work of poet Sylvia Plath.

Hammer with No Master

Author: René Char
Publisher: Tupelo Press Poetry in Transla
ISBN: 9781936797899
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The first English translation of one of the most important volumes of twentieth-century French poetry.