Archives

Rene Char (1907–1988) was born in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France. During his brief participation in the surrealist movement, he published with Breton and Eluard the collective work, Ralentir [...]

Sand and straw live gently, soften the fall of wine. They gather quills from dovecotes. Theirs is the gullet’s greedy tongue. They slow bare toes of girls, and pierce their chrysalids. [...]

September 3, 1939 The oriole breached dawn’s capital town. The sword of his song closed the cheerless bed. All forever came to an end.

All day long, side by side with the man, the iron forced its torso against the flaming mud of the forge. In the end, their twinned muscles unearthed the thin night of metal, bursting free. The [...]