The Word as Archipelago

The Word as Archipelago

The Word as Archipelago is the first complete translation into English of La Parole en archipel, an important book that RenÃ© Char published in 1962, and a book whose title is an apt figure for the whole body of poetry that Char wrote over a period of fifty years. The author of this book is a lover, a visionary of the natural world, an elegist, a phenomenologist of encounter, a mystic of the night, a spirit of defiant freedom who in the Second World War had been a leader in the French Resistance.

The book includes work in the different forms Char fluently moves amongâ€”the verse poem, the prose poem, and the aphoristic sequenceâ€”and displays his characteristic stylistic gifts: vivid concreteness, speculative incisiveness, archipelago-like scope. The word is an island belonging to a unity always partially hidden. Robert Bakerâ€™s resonant translation brings into English this language of intuitive crossings. A poet of pessimism and hope at once, perhaps the greatest French practitioner of the prose poem since Rimbaud, Char writes a beautifully open poetry of his avventura amorosa with life itself.
Country USA
Brand Omnidawn
Manufacturer Omnidawn
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781890650476
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781890650476
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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