Lichens

René Char (1907–1988), French poet, was influenced by the surrealists, his love of his native Provence, and his active participation in the French Resistance during World War II. He is known for his economy of style, including his aphorisms and his short bursts of prose. In 2010 Tupelo Press published his collected poems as Stone Lyre, with side-by-side English translations by Nancy Naomi Carlson. (updated 6/2010)

Nancy Naomi Carlson, poet, translator, editor, and essayist, has published nine books, six of them translations. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Maryland Council for the Arts, and was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award and CLMP’s Firecracker Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, AGNI, Poetry, and elsewhere. (updated 10/2018)