{"product_id":"2940148172017","title":"Les Pensees: The Thoughts of Lucienne Hollard McKay","description":"She survived war when her family did not, battled for liberty with the\u003cbr\u003eFrench Underground, and fell in love with an American doctor in Paris. And\u003cbr\u003ethroughout her too-short lifetime, she recorded her innermost thoughts and\u003cbr\u003eimpressions with intensely personal poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe daughter of a French physician, Lucienne Hollard McKay's poetry reflects\u003cbr\u003emany of her thoughts, her moods, her intimations. In them one finds pain as\u003cbr\u003ewell as gaiety; and fantasy, delight, and ecstasy.\u003cbr\u003eTremendously personal, the poems are set down in the author's native French\u003cbr\u003eand were never intended for publication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo honor Lucienne's memory after her passing, her husband selected more than\u003cbr\u003efifty of these poems to share with the world. They appear herein, filled\u003cbr\u003ewith all the nuances and delicate iridescence of their original expression.\u003cbr\u003eTranslated with dedicated friendship by Lilian Polk, the English poems\u003cbr\u003eappear side-by-side, next to the romantic language in which they were\u003cbr\u003ecreated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these poems, daydreams commingle with reality, life and death are\u003cbr\u003einterwoven, and always there is an ethereal beauty-even in the midst of\u003cbr\u003etragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucienne Hollard knew the mighty and the lowly, enjoyed the society of the\u003cbr\u003efamous, and worked closely with the nameless ones of the French Underground\u003cbr\u003eduring World War II. Everywhere her life took her, she remained a dauntless\u003cbr\u003espirit with an unbounded verve for whatever life brought. No other memorial\u003cbr\u003ecould conceivably preserve, as if still alive, the exquisite personality of\u003cbr\u003eits author.","brand":"Victory Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108662362352,"sku":"2940148172017","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148172017_p0.jpg?v=1764004289","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148172017","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}