A Long-Gone Sun

Bilingual Edition -- French/English Claire Malroux is France's leading woman poet.

National Book Award winner Marilyn Hacker has brilliantly translated this poetry of the present that looks back at Malroux's childhood and her father's life in the French Resistance and death at Bergen-Belsen.

In her introduction, Marilyn Hacker writes: "'I have told this story many times, ' says the poet, implying, I think, that it is a story which has been told in many times and places, by different voices, to different audiences, because it is one of the quintessential human stories: how a child gains consciousness at the cost of 'innocence' when s/he precisely realizes that harm is done, that the seemingly eternal moment of childhood is part of the irrevocable passage of history: not 'history' in the abstract, but that of the specific time and place in which/of which s/he becomes aware."