In his foreword to Stone Lyre, Nancy Naomi Carlson’s previous collection of René Char translations, Ilya Kaminsky praised “the intensity, the dream-like language, the gravity of tone, and the constant impression that one is reading not words in the language, but sparks of flames.”
Stone Lyre was a selection of poems from Char’s numerous volumes of poems; Carlson’s new Hammer with No Master is a discrete and continuous work, the first English translation of Char’s Le marteau sans maître, first published in 1934 — a time of rumbling menace that our time resembles.
- ISBN10 1936797895
- ISBN13 9781936797899
- Publish Date 1 November 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tupelo Press, Incorporated
- Edition Trade ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 160
- Language English