{"product_id":"word-as-archipelago-3","title":"Word as Archipelago","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWord as Archipelago\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRené Char\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781890650476\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eOmnidawn\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2011\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e176\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Word as Archipelago is the first complete translation into English of La Parole en archipel, an important book that René 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 War had been a leader in the French Resistance. The book includes work in the different forms Char fluently moves among--the verse poem, the prose poem, and the aphoristic sequence--and displays his characteristic stylistic gifts: vivid concreteness, speculative incisiveness, archipelago-like scope. The word is an island belonging to a unity always partially hidden. Robert Baker's resonant translation brings into English this language of intuitive crossings. A poet of pessimism and hope at once, perhaps the greatest French practitioner of the prose poem since Rimbaud, Char writes a beautifully open poetry of his avventura amorosa with life itself.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Omnidawn","offers":[{"title":"Word as Archipelago | René Char | Paperback | 9781890650476 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1756120","offer_id":49311050104984,"sku":"1756120","price":174.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/613hlF1X2bL_f084ef9b-1192-4c2c-a36f-dfcb0da1a9a0.jpg?v=1782068554","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/word-as-archipelago-3","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}