The word as archipelago
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The word as archipelago
Omnidawn Pub., 2012
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La parole en archipel
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Text in French and English
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii-xxiii)
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The Word as Archipelago is the first complete translation into English of La Parole en archipel, an important book that Rene 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 among-the verse poem, the prose poem, and the aphoristic sequence-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 Baker'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.
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