The Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview
reflecting the poet's wide stylistic and philosophical range, from
aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, the editors
have chosen the voices of seventeen poets and translators (Paul Auster,
Samuel Beckett, Cid Corman, Eugene Jolas, W.S. Merwin, William Carlos
Williams, and James Wright, to name a few), in homage to a writer long
held in highest esteem by the literary avant-garde.