Fugitive Suns: Selected Poetry/Bilingual

by Chedid, Andree

• ISBN13: 9781892295255
• ISBN10: 1892295253
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

The first major collection of poetry published in English by the noted French/Egyptian novelist and poet, Andree Chedid.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
from Earlier Collections
from Textes pour une figure
At the limit	p. 28
from Textes pour un poeme
Mountains	p. 30
Rivers	p. 32
from Textes pur le vivant
Second life	p. 34
from Terre regardee
Inner earth	p. 42
Land of omens	p. 44
from Seul le visage
Season of men	p. 48
Brief guest	p. 50
Lost song	p. 52
from Double-Pays
Men among the stones	p. 54
from Contre-chant
Instant's wage	p. 56
from Visage premier
Primal face	p. 58
from Fraternite de la Parole
Movement	p. 62
Alternate	p. 64
To be reborn	p. 66
Escort life	p. 68
A river inhabits us	p. 72
By our look	p. 76
The ancestor and the future	p. 80
Enemy sisters	p. 84
The child is dead	p. 88
Always--briefly	p. 92
from Poemes pour un texte
Proofs of the Living
Proofs of the face	p. 102
Proofs of the builder	p. 104
Proofs in black and gold	p. 108
Looking at childhood	p. 110
So much body and so much soul
Depths of the face	p. 112
Nights	p. 116
Time-Master	p. 118
Truth	p. 120
Deserter	p. 122
Resurrection or Resurrections	p. 124
Resonance	p. 130
from Par dela les mots
Enigmas
The Cry	p. 134
Credos	p. 136
The far side of facades	p. 138
Tides
Tides 1	p. 142
Tides 11	p. 144
Tides 111	p. 146
Cyclones
Vigil	p. 148
The eye	p. 150
Launch	p. 152
Boarding	p. 154
Fevers	p. 156
Gales	p. 158
Ruins	p. 160
Decline	p. 162
Man	p. 164
Le tamis du temps
House without roots	p. 166
Encounters	p. 168
The dawns' gravedigger	p. 172
Territories of Silence	p. 174
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