Creole echoes
the francophone poetry of nineteenth-century Louisiana
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Author
Contributions
- Shapiro, Norman R. - Contributor
- Weiss, M. Lynn. - Contributor
Publication
2004 - University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
58,500 words, Guess
Page Count
234 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3673747M
- ISBN-100252028767
- OCLC Control Number51942601
- OCLC Control Numbercreoleechoesfran0000unse
- Library of Congress Control Number2003007042
and 2 more
- LibraryThing286341
- Goodreads4921703
Classifications
- DDC841/.70809763
- LCCPQ3937.L8 C68 2004
Description
Creole poets have always eluded easy definition, infusing European poetic forms with Louisiana themes and Native American and African influences to produce a variety of highly accomplished verses. Creole Echoes contains more than a hundred of these poems by more than thirty different poets, presented in their original French alongside English translations by Norman R. Shapiro. The poems gathered here were all composed by Louisiana residents of European, African, and Caribbean origin. Their themes range from love and history to nightmare and childhood recollection. In these pages somber elegies meet whimsical surprises, and rhyming animal fables meet political panegyrics. --From publisher's description.
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- Translations into English.
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