A Long-Gone Sun: Poems

By Claire Malroux

Bilingual Edition -- French/English Claire Malroux is France's leading woman poet. National Book Award winner Marilyn Hacker has brilliantly translated this poetry of the present that looks back at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878818872
• ISBN13: 9781878818874
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Remembering A Long Gone Sun

Claire Malroux's booklength poem sequence, A Long Gone Sun, beautifully evokes life during the '30s and '40s in a small village near Toulouse in the south of France, evidently Saint- Sulpice or nearby, where traces of that life can still be seen and felt. Certainly the memory of World War Two still lives vigorously in that milieu of the poet's father, who was active in progressive politics and the Resistance, and who died as a result. The book is a subtle tribute to him and the world he helped to preserve. Malroux's unobtrusive imagist style suits her project, an oblique autobiography without egotism, a Bildungsroman in poetic form that also meditates on history's complex impacts upon the individual. She tells the truth but tells it "slant," as Emily Dickinson recommended. The translation by Marilyn Hacker echoes with grace and fidelity the syntax and internal rhymes of the original. Hacker has done a favor for American readers by introducing both a fine writer and a time and place worthy of our thoughtful attention.