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Poems: Volume I
Yves Bonnefoy
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Description for Poems: Volume I
Paperback. The definitive reader for one of the greatest living French poets and translators. Editor(s): Rudolf, Anthony; Romer, Stephen; Naughton, John. Translator(s): Rudolf, Anthony; Romer, Stephen; Naughton, John. Num Pages: 580 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
France's greatest poet of the last half century, Yves Bonnefoy wrote many books of poetry and poetic prose, as well as celebrated critical essays on literature and art (to which a second volume will be devoted). At his death in 2016 aged ninety-three, he was Emeritus Professor of Comparative Poetics at the College de France. The selection for this volume (and the second one) was made in close collaboration with the poet. The lengthy introduction by John Naughton is a significant assessment of Bonnefoy's importance in French literature. Bonnefoy started out as a young surrealist poet at ... Read more
France's greatest poet of the last half century, Yves Bonnefoy wrote many books of poetry and poetic prose, as well as celebrated critical essays on literature and art (to which a second volume will be devoted). At his death in 2016 aged ninety-three, he was Emeritus Professor of Comparative Poetics at the College de France. The selection for this volume (and the second one) was made in close collaboration with the poet. The lengthy introduction by John Naughton is a significant assessment of Bonnefoy's importance in French literature. Bonnefoy started out as a young surrealist poet at ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784100759
SKU
V9781784100759
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About Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy was named to the College de France in 1981 to fill the chair left vacant by the death of Roland Barthes and was the first poet honoured in this way since Paul Valery. He is the author of six critically acclaimed books of poetry. Bonnefoy's poems have appeared in English in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Partisan Review, ... Read more
Reviews for Poems: Volume I
His writings . . . are an important lighthouse on the contemporary cultural coastline.
Emily Grosholz Bonnefoy conjures up life's eternal questions with each new poem.
Beverley Bie Brahic
Emily Grosholz Bonnefoy conjures up life's eternal questions with each new poem.
Beverley Bie Brahic