Hammer with No Master

<div>In his foreword to Stone Lyre Nancy Naomi Carlson's previous collection of René Char translations Ilya Kaminsky praised the intensity the dream-like language the gravity of tone and the constant impression that one is reading not words in the language but sparks of flames.<br> <br> Stone Lyre was a selection of poems from Char's numerous volumes of poems; Carlson's new Hammer with No Master is a discrete and continuous work the first English translation of Char's Le marteau sans maître first published in 1934 - a time of rumbling menace that our time resembles.</div>