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

In his foreword to Stone Lyre, Nancy Naomi Carlson-s previous collection of Ren-har 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 ma-e, first published in 1934 - a time of rumbling menace that our time resembles.