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Throughout this moving collection, Bonnefoy's poems echo each other, returning to and elaborating upon key images, thoughts, feelings, and people. Intriguing and enigmatic, this mixture of sonnet sequences and prose poems--or, as Bonnefoy sees them, \"dream texts\"--move from his meditations on friendship and friends like Jorge Luis Borges to a long, discursive work in free verse that is a self-reflection on his thought and process. These poems are the ultimate condensation of Bonnefoy's ninety years of life and writing and they will be a valuable addition to the canon of his writings available in English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Beverley Bie Brahic does a splendid job of translating the latest work of Yves Bonnefoy. She catches his unique combination of human detail and a groping for the beyond. . . . Brahic does full justice to the profoundly moving text--with its frequent shifts between the personal and the searchingly philosophical.\"--Joseph Frank, author of \u003ci\u003eResponses to Modernity: Essays in the Politics of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Yves Bonnefoy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793315921962,"sku":"9780857427533","price":10.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/present-hour-6152262.jpg?v=1762150941"},{"product_id":"anchors-long-chain","title":"Anchor's Long Chain","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn experiment with the sonnet form by one of the foremost French poets of his generation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yves Bonnefoy has wowed the literary world for decades with his diffuse volumes. First published in France in 2008, \u003ci\u003eThe Anchor\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003ci\u003es Long Chain\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable addition to his oeuvre. Enriching Bonnefoy's earlier work, the volume, translated by Beverley Bie Brahic, also innovates, including an unprecedented sequence of nineteen sonnets. These sonnets combine the strictness of the form with the freedom to vary line length and create evocative fragments. Compressed, emotionally powerful, and allusive, the poems are also autobiographical--but only in glimpses. Throughout, Bonnefoy conjures up life's eternal questions with each new poem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Longer, discursive pieces, including the title poem's meditation on a prehistoric stone circle and a legend about a ship, are also part of this volume, as are a number of poetic prose pieces in which Bonnefoy, like several of his great French predecessors, excels. 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A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and published a dozen major collections of poetry in verse and prose, several books of dream-like tales, and numerous studies of literature and art. His oeuvre has been translated into scores of languages, and he himself was a celebrated translator of Shakespeare, Yeats, Keats, and Leopardi. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTogether Still\u003c\/i\u003e is his final poetic work, composed just months before his death. The book is nothing short of a literary testament, addressed to his wife, his daughter, his friends, and his readers throughout the world. 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