Citizens of Beauty: Poems of Jean Sénac (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781611861990)

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."

Author: Jean Sénac
ISBN-10: 1611861993
ISBN-13: 9781611861990
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2016
Pages: 82
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.60d