10,000 Dawns: The Love Poems of Claire and Yvan Goll
AUTHORS
Yvan Goll and Claire Goll
TRANSLATORS
Thomas Rain Crowe and Nan Watkins
Published in France in 1951 and appearing here for the first time in exquisite English translations that capture the poignancy of the originals, this volume also reproduces the eight drawing by Marc Chagall that appeared in the original, many of them of the poets themselves. The poems move back and forth between the two poets, creating an intimate yet universal conversation between two people who knew they had found their soulmate.
Reviews
“Unlike the Surrealists, Goll loved a real woman, who was an unchanging presence in his life . . . it may well be that Goll will be remembered for these poems. Their simple visionary grace, the ease with which they build a spiritual moment out of commonplace, almost conventional, images, make the love poems unique in modern poetry.”
—Paul Zweig
Nan Watkins is a writer, translator, musician, and librarian. She holds degrees from Oberlin College and Johns Hopkins University, with further study at the University of Munich and the Academy of Music in Vienna. She worked as reference librarian at Western Carolina University for over twenty years. Watkins lives in the Tuckasegee community of Jackson County with Thomas Rain Crowe.
Thomas Rain Crowe is an internationally-published and recognized author and translator of more than thirty books, including the multi-award winning nonfiction nature memoir Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods (2005); an historical novel The Watcher: Like Sweet Bells Jangled (2015) and several collections of poems including Radiogenesis (2007) and The Laugharne Poems published in Wales in 1997 by Carreg Gwalch.
