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Warsh, poet, translates Desnos to bring the poem into the present, his present and ours, feverishly alive, as poem not of the past but of the future. It is wonderful to have this celebratory volume and admire his work fifty years later.\" – Erín Moure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lewis Warsh, always a delicate and romantic poet, writes with the speed of intuition. He captures in his translation of Desnos the same music, almost arbitrary in its liberties. Night is a cloak to compose such poetry in. And so it adapts to the conditions it is given, dark and wicked only to match the world at its worst ... The poems here are like silhouettes dashing out of the past and passing. A sparkling and taunting dance before the shadow of Hitler takes form.\" – Fanny Howe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Desnos caught his night stunningly in formal and luxurious French pressing hard on Avant breakthrough, addressing the lover in tantalizing lament, flourishing insomniacal language. He suffered Nazi murder and I think Warsh, in his translation--a young evolving poet's tender cri de coeur on the back of Desnos--felt spirit connection to the Jewish poet. The new afterword by its original publisher, David Rosenberg, is a generous and brotherly asset. I love and lived this poem's untethered shadowing.\" – Anne Waldman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Desnos's poem, in Lewis's translation, must have influenced us all with its structural changes – stanzas, then none to speak of, prose interlude, line lists, then lovely curt goodbye. Its sense of a corrupt teeming world in which the only pure image exists in the lover's (poet's), heart though each member of the corrupt world is also that lover. I love this poem, and I salute the fiftieth anniversary of the translation's publication, remembering when Lewis was working on it in '71, deeply bemused by the fact of the undertaking. 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