Hammer with No Master - Poems of René Char (French and English Edition)

In his foreword to Stone Lyre, Nancy Naomi Carlson's previous collection of René Char translations, Ilya Kaminsky praised "the intensity, the dream-like language, the gravity of tone, and the constant impression that one is reading not words in the language, but sparks of flames."

Stone Lyre was a selection of poems from Char's numerous volumes of poems; Carlson's new Hammer with No Master is a discrete and continuous work, the first English translation of Char's Le marteau sans maître, first published in 1934 - a time of rumbling menace that our time resembles.

Product details

• Authors: Renae Char, Rene Char, René Char
• Assisted by: Nancy Naomi Carlson (Translation)
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781936797899
• ISBN: 978-1-936797-89-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 262 g
• Series: Tupelo Press Poetry in Transla; Tupelo Press Poetry in Transla; Tupelo Press Poetry in Translation
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama