Fugitive suns : selected poetry / Andrée Chedid ; translated from the French and with an introduction by Lynne Goodhart and Jon Wagner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chedid, Andrée, 1920-2011.

Contributor:

Goodhart, Lynne.

Series:

Green Integer (Series) ; 37.

Green Integer ; 37

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English & French

Language:

English

French

Physical Description:

181 pages ; 16 cm.

Edition:

Bilingual edition, first English language edition.

Place of Publication:

København ; Los Angeles : Green Integer ; Saint Paul, Minn. : Distributed in the U.S. by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 1999.

Summary:

With over twenty-six books of poetry, ten novels, four collections of short stories, and various books of theater, film, essays, and children's works, Egyptian born Andree Chedid is one of the most noted authors of our time. Chedid spent most of her childhood in Egypt, making frequent trips to France. Her family also had ties with Lebanon and Syria. Her early education was in Egypt, but she later attended schools in France and completed her secondary education in Paris. She earned a degree in journalism from the American University in Cairo. Accordingly, as a child and young woman, Chedid was exposed to a wide range of cultural experiences, speaking French and English, and with knowledge of spoken Arabic.

For most of her life, however, Chedid has felt most at home in Paris, and, while her fictions are firmly rooted in emotions and images from the Middle East, she has described her poetry as being "free of time and place," having no "geographical boundaries," and belonging "to all lands." The poems of this volume, her first English-language collection of poetry, are selected from her entire career, including works from 1949 to 1995.

Contents:

from Earlier Collections

from Textes pour une figure

At the limit 28

from Textes pour un poeme

Mountains 30

Rivers 32

from Textes pur le vivant

Second life 34

from Terre regardee

Inner earth 42

Land of omens 44

from Seul le visage

Season of men 48

Brief guest 50

Lost song 52

from Double-Pays

Men among the stones 54

from Contre-chant

Instant's wage 56

from Visage premier

Primal face 58

from Fraternite de la Parole

Movement 62

Alternate 64

To be reborn 66

Escort life 68

A river inhabits us 72

By our look 76

The ancestor and the future 80

Enemy sisters 84

The child is dead 88

Always

briefly 92

from Poemes pour un texte

Proofs of the Living

Proofs of the face 102

Proofs of the builder 104

Proofs in black and gold 108

Looking at childhood 110

So much body and so much soul

Depths of the face 112

Nights 116

Time-Master 118

Truth 120

Deserter 122

Resurrection or Resurrections 124

Resonance 130

from Par dela les mots

Enigmas

The Cry 134

Credos 136

The far side of facades 138

Tides

Tides 1 142

Tides 11 144

Tides 111 146

Cyclones

1. Vigil 148

2. The eye 150

3. Launch 152

4. Boarding 154

5. Fevers 156

6. Gales 158

7. Ruins 160

8. Decline 162

9. Man 164

Le tamis du temps

House without roots 166

Encounters 168

The dawns' gravedigger 172

Territories of Silence 174.

ISBN:

1892295253

OCLC:

42878162