Anchor's Long Chain by Yves Bonnefoy

Anchor's Long Chain

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Anchor's Long Chain by Yves Bonnefoy
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Anchor's Long Chain

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Anchor's Long Chain

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An experiment with the sonnet form by one of the foremost French poets of his generation.

Yves Bonnefoy has wowed the literary world for decades with his diffuse volumes. First published in France in 2008, The Anchor's Long Chain 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.

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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Seagull Books
ISBN:
9781803092935
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Yves Bonnefoy
Published Date:
2023-10-11
Language:
English
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About Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) was a French poet, essayist, and translator born in Tours. His first major collection was Du Mouvement et de l'Immobilité de Douve (Mercure de France, 1953). Elected to the Collège de France in 1981, he held the Chair of Comparative Studies of the Poetic Function until 1993, and he taught at Yale, Brandeis, and the City University of New York, among others. He received the Prix Goncourt de la poésie in 1987, the Franz Kafka Prize in 2007, and the Griffin Trust Lifetime Recognition Award in 2011. He translated Shakespeare, Yeats, and Petrarch into French and wrote extensively on art and poetics.

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