Creole echoes
Subtitle: the francophone poetry of nineteenth-century Louisiana
By: translated by Norman R. Shapiro ; introduction and notes by M. Lynn Weiss ; foreword by Werner Sollors.
Contributors: Shapiro, Norman R.; Weiss, M. Lynn.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: French-American poetry -- Louisiana.; French-American poetry -- 19th century.; French-American poetry -- Louisiana -- Translations into English.; French-American poetry -- 19th century -- Translations into English.
Genres: Translations into English.
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.
Notes: English and French.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-234).