Stone Lyre
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"René 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
René Char
René Char was born in L'Isle-sur-Sorgue in the south of France in 1907 and died in Paris in 1988. A major influence on the generation of French poets who came of age after the Second?World War, he was a close friend and associate of Albert Camus. He is widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation.
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