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Finally, someone has captured the music of the French
Char is considered the greatest French poet of the 20th Century. His poems are mysterious, full of images and ideas. The selection and sequencing of poems in this book is very appealing. I prefer it to other translated selections of Char's work because it preserves much more of the slant rhyme and alliteration of the original French. These poems sound terrific, as the originals did. No one else has acheived that. At the same time, the translator preserves the meaning of the originals adeptly. I particularly enjoyed the prose poems and the poems with nature images.
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October 28, 2011
(USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
Diligent and Extraordinarily Well Crafted
This translation of some of Char's overlooked prose poems is rich, attentive to detail, and diligent to the originals. Nancy Naomi Carlson is an extraordinarily gifted translator and poet.
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May 2, 2012
(Baltimore, MD United States) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5
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No Tupelo Press book in recent years has earned the cascade of praises drawn by Nancy Naomi Carlson's new selection of translations from fifty years work by French maestro Rene Char. Until now, American readers have mostly known Char by his imposing reputation, not by direct experience. Fascinating in his life story Char was an underground leader in the anti-Nazi resistance and subsequently a fierce opponent of nuclear proliferation on the page this poet is pastoral and cosmopolitan, radical and deeply traditional, severe and incomparably delicate. Top to learn more
Stone Lyre: Poems of René Char
I worked as the editor of this book, which has earned the cascade of praises. Nancy Naomi Carlson's new selection of translations draws from fifty years' work by French maestro René Char. Until now, American readers have mostly known Char by his imposing reputation, not by direct experience. Fascinating in his life story -- Char was an underground leader in the anti-Nazi resistance and subsequently a fierce opponent of nuclear proliferation -- on the page this poet is pastoral and cosmopolitan, radical and deeply traditional, severe and incomparably delicate.Remarkable in the accolades for Carlson's success is the high opinion expressed by other poet-translators, including Donald Revell, who has said, "René Char is the conscience of modern French poetry and also its calm of mind. Carlson, in these splendid translations, casts new light upon the sublime consequence of Char's poetic character. . . ."Poet-translator Cole Swenson observes, "Carlson...
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January 14, 2010
(South Strafford, VT United States) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4
