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By JENNIFER DOHERTY
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The immediacy of perception and absence of rhetoric that define haiku made it, in Julien Vocance’s mind, the perfect vehicle to convey the experience of mechanized modern warfare.
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The American poet Alfred Nicol (b. 1956) is the author of such collections as “Animal Psalms” and “Elegy for Everyone,” and one of the nation’s best translators. In 2022 he published “100 Visions of War,” a tour-de-force rendering of Julien Vocance’s French haikus as English haikus. The New York Sun is proud to run his selection of seven of his translations of Vocance’s brief poems for the third day of a week of World War I poetry in honor of Veterans Day (Armistice Day or Remembrance Day, in other English-speaking countries) on November 11.
Guest editor Alfred Nicol writes:
Though not nearly as well known as the English soldier-poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, the Frenchman Joseph Seguin (1878–1954) also fought in the First World War — and also wrote poetry about his experiences at the front. In 1916, under the pen name “Julien Vocance,” he published “Cent visions de guerre,” or “A Hundred Visions of War.” Although little known among English readers, it is a profound work of the moral imagination.
As a young man, having just earned his bachelor’s degree, Vocance served ten months of a three-year enlistment in the French army. He then moved to Paris in 1898 to continue his studies. And it was there in Paris that he began to meet with a group of students at the apartment of the French philosophy student Paul-Louis Couchoud (1879–1959).
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|The American poet Alfred Nicol (b. 1956) is the author of such collections as “Animal Psalms” and “Elegy for Everyone,” and one of the nation’s best translators. In 2022 he published “100 Visions of War,” a tour-de-force rendering of Julien Vocance’s French haikus as English haikus. The New York Sun is proud to run his selection of seven of his translations of Vocance’s brief poems for the third day of a week of World War I poetry in honor of Veterans Day (Armistice Day or Remembrance Day, in other English-speaking countries) on November 11.
Guest editor Alfred Nicol writes:
Though not nearly as well known as the English soldier-poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, the Frenchman Joseph Seguin (1878–1954) also fought in the First World War — and also wrote poetry about his experiences at the front. In 1916, under the pen name “Julien Vocance,” he published “Cent visions de guerre,” or “A Hundred Visions of War.” Although little known among English readers, it is a profound work of the moral imagination.
As a young man, having just earned his bachelor’s degree, Vocance served ten months of a three-year enlistment in the French army. He then moved to Paris in 1898 to continue his studies. And it was there in Paris that he began to meet with a group of students at the apartment of the French philosophy student Paul-Louis Couchoud (1879–1959).
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