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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. Long-time fans will find much to praise here, while newer readers will quickly find themselves under the spell of Bonnefoy's powerful, discursive poetry. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yves Bonnefoy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793315987498,"sku":"9781803092935","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/anchors-long-chain-9113622.jpg?v=1762150940"},{"product_id":"wandering-life-followed-by-another-era-of-writing","title":"Wandering Life: Followed by Another Era of Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first English translation of Yves Bonnefoy's account of his life as a traveler.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wandering Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetic culmination of Yves Bonnefoy's wanderings and characterizes the final twenty-five years of his work. Bonnefoy was an ardent traveler throughout his life, and his journeys in foreign countries left a profound imprint on his work. The time he spent in Italy, translating Shakespeare's work in England, in universities in the United States, in India with Octavio Paz, and more, affected his poetry in discernible ways and inspired \u003ci\u003eThe Wandering Life\u003c\/i\u003e. Interweaving verse and prose--vignettes that range from a few lines in length to several pages--this volume is a fitting capstone to Bonnefoy's oeuvre and appears in English translation for the first time to mark the centenary of Yves Bonnefoy's birth. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yves Bonnefoy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793317396522,"sku":"9781803092409","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/wandering-life-followed-by-another-era-of-writing-7389724.jpg?v=1762150882"},{"product_id":"together-still","title":"Together Still","description":"\u003cb\u003eYves Bonnefoy's final poetic work, a collection of reflections about poetry, legacy, and life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The international community of letters mourned the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half-century. 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. In these pages, he ruminates on his legacy to future generations, his insistence on living in the present, his belief in the triumphant lessons of beauty, and, above all, his courageous identification of poetry with hope.","brand":"Yves Bonnefoy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793317494826,"sku":"9781803092959","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/together-still-2370210.jpg?v=1762150882"},{"product_id":"digamma","title":"Digamma","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn inspiring book of poetry and prose by the celebrated author Yves Bonnefoy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Heralded as one of France's greatest poets, Yves Bonnefoy has been dazzling readers since the publication of his first book in 1953. He remains influential and relevant, continuing to compose groundbreaking new work. Though Bonnefoy recently celebrated his ninetieth birthday, many are calling these past two decades his most impressive yet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His latest book of poetry and prose, \u003ci\u003eThe Digamma\u003c\/i\u003e, fits wonderfully into his impressive oeuvre, offering his signature style of simple but powerful language with fresh new grace. A key passage of the title piece of the book depicts the figures of Nicolas Poussin's \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherds of Arcadia\u003c\/i\u003e, which Bonnefoy has identified as crucial to the artist's evolution. The sustained reference to Poussin's iconography serves to ground the text in the lost civilizations of antiquity. Subtly, it brings out the underlying theme of the entire collection--in the ambivalent world we inhabit, being and non-being is fundamentally one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As a leading translator of Shakespeare in France, Bonnefoy's fascination with the master playwright is displayed in \"God in Hamlet\" and \"For a Staging of Othello,\" two poems in prose that belong to an ongoing series of meditations on the plays. The collection also includes haunting reflections on children, nature, the origins of art, and vanished cultures.","brand":"Yves Bonnefoy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793317560362,"sku":"9781803092966","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/digamma-1852232.jpg?v=1762150883"},{"product_id":"rue-traversiere","title":"Rue Traversière","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beautiful collection of poems from various styles and genres by France's foremost poet, Yves Bonnefoy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Praised by Paul Auster as \"one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excellence throughout an entire lifetime,\" Yves Bonnefoy is widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation. Proving that his prose is just as lyrical, \u003ci\u003eRue Traversière\u003c\/i\u003e, written in 1977, is one of his most harmonious works. Each of the fifteen discrete or linked texts, whose lengths range from brief notations to long, intense, self-questioning pages, is a work of art in its own right: brief and richly suggestive as haiku, or long and intricately wrought in syntax and thought; and all are as rewarding in their sounds and rhythms, and their lightning flashes of insight, as any sonnet. \"I can write all I like; I am also the person who looks at the map of the city of his childhood and doesn't understand,\" says the section that gives the book its title, as he revisits childhood cityscapes and explores the tricks memory plays on us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A mixture of genres--the prose poem, the personal essay, quasi-philosophical reflections on time, memory, and art--this is a book of both epigrammatic concision and dreamlike narratives that meander with the poet's thought as he struggles to understand and express some of the undercurrents of human life. 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A short, critical text on different forms of artistic creation, masterfully translated by Chris Turner, the volume is an invigorating read.","brand":"Yves Bonnefoy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793317724202,"sku":"9780857424259","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/poetry-and-photography-2955816.jpg?v=1762150882"},{"product_id":"ursa-major","title":"Ursa Major","description":"Yves Bonnefoy was one of the greatest living voices of contemporary French poetry. In this, his sixth book published by Seagull Books, he explores in profound new ways the mysteries of human consciousness. Readers find snatches of conversations--overheard, dropped without any possible conclusion--each pregnant with half-hidden, half-visible meaning. Limpid, punctuated with silences, the poems of \u003ci\u003eUrsa Major\u003c\/i\u003e are like stones picked up, turned over and set back down on the edge of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Countless voices traverse us; endless, almost, as the meanders of dreams or the starry scintillations of summer nights. Only listen, and a few words rise from the murmur, referring to precise things, making allusions one would like to understand, offering opinions perhaps worth mulling over.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With these words Bonnefoy introduces the collection, newly rendered into English by the master translator Beverly Bie Brahic. This deeply moving sequence of prose poems invites readers to attend to the multitudinous voices that carry on their conversations within us, to trust them--\"just as on summer nights we would lie down in the grass of the meadow, behind our houses, to go forth among the millions of stars with a feeling of falling.\"","brand":"Yves Bonnefoy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793317789738,"sku":"9780857423740","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/ursa-major-4303703.jpg?v=1762150882"},{"product_id":"second-simplicity-new-poetry-and-prose-1991-2011","title":"Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eagerly awaited anthology of recent poetry and prose by the celebrated French poet Yves Bonnefoy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yves Bonnefoy, who will soon attain the age of ninety, has gratified his readers during the past two decades with the most prolific and innovative period of his splendid lifework. This volume presents in English and French an inviting array of his recent writings, carefully selected for their literary quality as well as their broad appeal. It features several works never published before and many that have never been translated into English. The first anthology of Bonnefoy's work to appear since 1995, this collection reflects the poet's powerful engagement with the New England landscape; its quiet woods and fields have helped to shape to the pared-down aesthetic of his recent years. The book is the first to showcase not only the poetry for which Bonnefoy is justly renowned but also his inventive compositions in prose. Appropriately, the book alternates more traditional verse with freer forms, just as the author has done in several major works of the past twenty years; that symbiotic approach is one of the hallmarks of this latter phase of his art. 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