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The Present Hour
Yves Bonnefoy
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Description for The Present Hour
Hardback. A collection of poems that echo each other, returning to and elaborating upon key images, thoughts, feelings, and people. Intriguing and enigmatic, it is a mixture of sonnet sequences and prose poems. Translator(s): Brahic, Beverley Bie. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 244.
From the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has been considered the most important and influential French poet since World War II. A prolific writer, critic, and translator, Bonnefoy continues to compose groundbreaking new work sixty years later, constantly offering his readers what Paul Auster has called "the highest level of artistic excellence." In The Present Hour, Bonnefoy's latest collection, a personal narrative surfaces in splinters and shards. Every word from Bonnefoy is multifaceted, like the fragmented figures seen from different angles in cubist painting-as befits a poet who has written extensively about artists such as Goya, ... Read more
From the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has been considered the most important and influential French poet since World War II. A prolific writer, critic, and translator, Bonnefoy continues to compose groundbreaking new work sixty years later, constantly offering his readers what Paul Auster has called "the highest level of artistic excellence." In The Present Hour, Bonnefoy's latest collection, a personal narrative surfaces in splinters and shards. Every word from Bonnefoy is multifaceted, like the fragmented figures seen from different angles in cubist painting-as befits a poet who has written extensively about artists such as Goya, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
Series
The French List
Number of Pages
84
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857421630
SKU
V9780857421630
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About Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy is a poet, critic, and professor emeritus of comparative poetics at the College de France. In addition to poetry and literary criticism, he has published numerous works of art history and translated into French several of Shakespeare's plays. He is the author of The Arriere-Pays, published by Seagull Books. Beverley Bie Brahic is a Canadian poet and translator. ... Read more
Reviews for The Present Hour
"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 Responses to Modernity: Essays in the Politics of Culture" ... Read more