The Brittle Age and Returning Upland

by René Char

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933996110
• ISBN13: 9781933996110
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Counterpath Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 1 month and up