The Word as Archipelago

by René Char

The Word as Archipelago is the first complete translation into English of La Parole en archipel, an important book that Ren Char published in 1962, and a book whose title is an apt figure for the whole body of poetry that Char wrote over a period of fifty years. The author of this book is a lover, a visionary of the natural world, an elegist, a phenomenologist of encounter, a mystic of the night, a spirit of defiant freedom who in the Second World...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890650471
• ISBN13: 9781890650476
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Omnidawn
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"