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Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Creole Culture Captured
 Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana

Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0252071492

Book Description

Creole poets have always eluded easy definition, infusing European poetic forms with Louisiana themes and Native American and African influences to produce an impressive variety of highly accomplished verses. The first major collection of its kind, Creole Echoes contains over a hundred of these poems by more than thirty different poets, presented by M. Lynn Weiss in their original French alongside new English translations by Norman R. Shapiro.

The poems gathered here were all composed in French 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.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Creole Culture Captured.......2007-01-21

I am Creole (French and Native American). From what my grandparents and great-grandparents had told me about Louisiana of the 19th century -- the collection captures the culture and essence of the Creoles and Creole culture and society of that period. And, nothing is lost in the translation by Norman Shapiro -- keeps the meaning and flow of the language intact.
Befo' de war;: Echoes in Negro dialect,
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    		Befo' de war;: Echoes in Negro dialect,
    Armistead Churchill Gordon
    Manufacturer: C. Scribner's Sons
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    Binding: Unknown Binding
    ASIN: B00088T0L4
    Creole Echoes
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      		Creole Echoes
      Norman R. (EDT)/ Weiss, M. Lynn (INT)/ Sollors, Werner (FRW)/ Shapiro, Norman R./ Weiss, M. Lynn (EDT) Shapiro
      Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback
      ASIN: B000OPWFO0

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