{"product_id":"9781890650476","title":"The Word as Archipelago","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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\/p\u003e","brand":"Omnidawn Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043643310320,"sku":"9781890650476","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781890650476_p0.jpg?v=1763608814","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781890650476","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}