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Ren Char (1907-88) is one of the most important modern French poets. Admired by Heidegger for the profundity of his poetic philosophy, he was also a hero of the French Resistance and in the 1960s a militant anti-nuclear protester. Associated with the Surrealist movement for several years and a close friend of many painters notably Braque, Giacometti and Picasso he wrote poetry which miraculously, often challengingly, confronts the major 20th-century moral, political and artistic concerns with a simplicity of vision and expression that owes much to the poet-philosophers of ancient Greece.
Li-Young Lee has been praised for his passionate poetry and its deceptively simple style. His poems are unique in their emotional intensity and metaphysical abstraction, particularly at a time when many contemporary American poets are breaking away from the 'lyric I' in order to articulate an unstable and plural 'I'... Many of his poems recall his father, who is portrayed as strict and tender, powerful and vulnerable, godlike and human. - Xiaojing Zhou, Heath Anthology of American Literature
