Arthur Rimbaud

René Char

Le désordre somptueux d'une passion exotique, éclat d'un météore, selon Mallarmé ; un ange en exil aux yeux d'un bleu pâle inquiétant, pour Verlaine. Un " éveil génial ", et c'est Le Bateau ivre, une " puberté perverse et superbe ", puis un jeune homme brièvement " ravagé par la littérature ", le maître d'une " expression intense " aux sujets inouïs - tout cela dans un mince volume, dû au poète touché, puis déserté, par le génie, " aventure unique dans l'histoire de l'art ".

Une saison en enfer ; Illuminations

Poésies

“This is a fine, bilingual edition of the works of one of the great French Surrealists. . . . The translations, by several hands, serve Char well—full of insinuating rhythms and unusual verbal couplings, they come close to the piercing beauty of the originals.” —Pat Monaghan, Booklist

Selected Poems of René Char

Yves Berger

Ce livre rassemble une part importante des poèmes que René Char écrivit entre 1938 et 1947 et dont beaucoup ont fait l'objet d'une publication en recuil. Ce volume contient: "Seuls demeurent", "Feuillets d'Hypnos", "Les loyaux adversaires", "Le poème pulvérisé" et "La fontaine narrative".

Fureur et mystère

Leaves of Hypnos

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.

Notes from the French Resistance, 1943-44

Hypnos

Mary Ann Caws

The Description for this book, Poems of Rene Char:, will be forthcoming.

Poems of René Char

Le Nu perdu

1946-1959

Correspondance

A bilingual collection of work by one of the greatest French poets of the twentieth century.

Selected Poems

This Smoke that Carried Us

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."

And, Returning Upland

The Brittle Age

Cette édition présente l'intérêt de nous offrir non seulement les deux versions du texte, celle de 1952 sous le titre de "Guirlande terrestre" et celle de 1964 parue dans l'anthologie "Commune présence", mais également la reproduction des 16 collages de Jean Arp qui accompagnaient la première version et les 24 lithographies de Georges Braque qui allaient l'amble avec la deuxième.

suivi de Guirlande terrestre

Lettera amorosa

Now in paperback, René Char's Hypnos is both a remarkable work of literature and a document of unique significance in the history of the French Resistance. Hailed by the poet Paul Eluard as an "absolute masterpiece" upon its first appearance in 1946, René Char's Hypnos is both a remarkable work of literature and a document of unique significance in the history of the French Resistance. Based on a journal Char kept during his time in the Maquis, it 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. Translated into German by Paul Celan and into Italian by Vittorio Sereni, the book has never been carried over into English with the attention to style and detail that it deserves. Published in full here for the first time, this long-awaited new translation does justice at last to the incandescence and pathos of the original French.

Nancy Naomi Carlson

"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 "Early Surrealist, resistance fighter, anti-nuclear activist, and exquisite poet, Rene Char is at the heart of 20th century French poetry. In this insightful selection from across his long career, Carlson gives English-language readers a real sense of Char's depth and breadth. And her masterful translations catch the barely contained drama that gives Char's work such tension and presence, while her excellent ear picks up not only the sound relationships that weave through the originals, but also their delicate, seductive rhythms. A beautiful accomplishment."---Cole Swensen, poet, translator, and founding editor of La Presse

Stone Lyre

"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.

"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.

And Other Poems

The Inventors

The Description for this book, Poems of Rene Char: , will be forthcoming.

This bilingual volume, with the French and English on facing pages, is a translation of a book of poems by René Char, a 20th-century French poet known for his work of great beauty. Fierce, lyrical, searching, Char is a gifted writer in whose poems we encounter a range of voices: those of a leader in the French Resistance, a visionary of his native Provence, an elegist, a lover, a mystic of the night, an evocative and at times riddling aphorist.

The Word as Archipelago

Raymond Carver

Walt Whitman

Kenneth Rexroth

Seamus Heaney

Charles Wright

William Collins

Gerald Brenan

Thomas Chatterton

Dino Campana

H. D. Thoreau

Juan Arabia

R. W. Emerson

• El Poeta – R. W. EMERSON (trad. Fernando Vidagañ Murgui) • Haciendo/Construyendo la contracultura (II) – Kenneth REXROTH (trad. Fernando Correa Navarro) • A backward Glance O`Er Travel`d Roads – Walt WHITMAN • Walden – de H. D. THOREAU (trad. Antonio Casado da Roca) • Entrevista a Charles WRIGHT – por Adalber Salas Hernández Homenaje a Ezra Pound – Charles Wright (trad. A. S. H.) La Escuela de Cristo – Charles Wright (trad. A. S. H.) • Tres poetas del Renacimiento inglés – SIR PHILIP SIDNEY – SAMUEL DANIEL – JOHN FLETCHER (trad. Lucas Margarit) • “Poetas del cementerio” (Graveyard Poets) – Por Juan Arabia Thomas CHATTERTON, Adiós (trad. J. A.) William COWPER, El Náufrago (trad. Pablo Ingberg) William COLLINS, Fidele (trad. J. A.) • Thomas CHATTERTON – El Mito del Poeta Condenado – Ian Haywood • Les poètes maudits – Villiers de L’Isle-Adam (trad. Mariano Rolando Andrade) • ¡Hiciste bien en irte, Arthur Rimbaud! – René CHAR • Parodies of LUSTRA – Gerald BRENAN (trad. Carlos Pranger) • Cavando – Seamus HEANEY (trad. Andrés Piña) • All of Us: The Collected Poems – Raymond CARVER (trad. Carlos Llaza) • Buenos Aires (& otros poemas) – Dino CAMPANA (trad. Antonio Nazzaro) • Heptonstall & otros poemas (inédito) – Víctor RODRÍGUEZ NÚÑEZ • Las prisas del instante & Otros poemas, de Federico DÍAZ-GRANADOS • Marianne Moore o el laboratorio -de Eleonora FINKELSTEIN • ELPÉNOR – Manipulación de la Calavera – de Víctor Manuel PINTO POSDATA • Carta de John FANTE a Charles BUKOWSKI (1979) • (Anadyomène) RIMBAUD por Ezra POUND (trad. de Juan Arabia)

Buenos Aires Poetry N°6

C'est dans l'intimité que s'épanouissent les rencontres. Cette anthologie d'un poète, dont la voix rassemble les milieux les plus divers et dont la haute figure s'étend sur le siècle plus largement et plus profondément qu'une autre, ouvre une voie, un " chemin du secret " vers l'intimité du lecteur. La rencontre avec René Char, que les auteurs de cette anthologie ont voulue pour le grand public et plus particulièrement pour le public scolaire, naît sous une lumière qui par notes, par images, par mises en situation des poèmes, éclaire et apprivoise des textes perçus justement comme saisissants par leur concentration. [...] Éclairant le chemin de vie et d'écriture de René Char, ce livre offre [...] à tous ceux dont le poète écrivait : " Ils disent des mots qui leur restent au coin des yeux ", les conditions d'une lecture intime.

René Char

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