Citizens of beauty : poems of Jean Sénac / translated by Jack Hirschman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sénac, Jean, 1926-1973, author.

Contributor:

Hirschman, Jack, 1933-2021, translator.

Series:

African humanities and the arts.

African Humanities and the Arts

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French poetry--Translations into English.

French poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (82 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Now available in English for the first time, translated by the poet Jack Hirschman, this beautiful collection of poems by the Algerian poet Jean Sénac (1926-1973) was originally published when he was forty-one. Sénac represented the hope of the new generation of Algerians who were celebrating their independence from France after 130 years of colonialism, and in the tradition of René Char and the early Albert Camus, he portrayed an Algeria whose land and people would finally sing with their own voice. Sénac celebrates revolution, love, and the body, beginning with the resonant verses: "And now we'll sing love / for there's no Revolution without love." He sang, as well, of beauty: "No morning without smiling. / Beauty on our lips is one continuous fruit."

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Citizens of Beauty; Arbatache; The Night of Doubt; Words with Walt Whitman; Summoning the Diwan of the Pier; Brahim, the Generous; An Island against Death

Notes:

Originally published under title: Citoyens de beaute.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62895-260-1

1-60917-485-2

OCLC:

946161924