Wandering Life: Followed by Another Era of Writing

Name: Wandering Life: Followed by Another Era of Writing
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ISBN: 9781803092409

by Yves Bonnefoy

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The first English translation of Yves Bonnefoy's account of his life as a traveler.

The Wandering Life 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 The Wandering Life. 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.

Publisher:: Seagull Books
ISBN:: 9781803092409
Binding:: Hardcover
Pages:: 156
Authors:: Yves Bonnefoy
Published Date:: 2024-03-13
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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