"One sings here of the soul of a river, and this soul never dies." C.F.Ramuz Nearly seventy years after the death of Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947), it is safe to say that the reputation of Switzerland"s legendary poet of the people is secure, at least in French. Since 2005, his 22 novels have appeared in a two-volume Pleiade Edition from Gallimard (Paris) and Editions Slatkine in Geneva has completed 29 volumes of Ramuz"s Oeuvres Completes (Complete Works). The author"s slightly blurred face has been on the Swiss 200-franc note for years and his Histoire du Soldat (A Soldier"s Tale), written in collaboration with Igor Stravinksy in 1918, can easily be found on You Tube. But only recently have English translations of Ramuz"s novels begun to appear and until now, his only epic prose poem has not been available in English. Patti M. Marxsen"s translation of Ramuz"s Chant de Notre Rhone brings this unique work to Anglophone readers as Riversong of the Rhone in a well-crafted...