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Ursa Major
Yves Bonnefoy
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Description for Ursa Major
Hardback. Translator(s): Brahic, Beverly Bie. Series: SB-The French List. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 238.
Yves Bonnefoy is 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 Ursa Major are like stones picked up, turned over and set back down on the edge of life."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 ... Read more
Yves Bonnefoy is 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 Ursa Major are like stones picked up, turned over and set back down on the edge of life."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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Condition
New
Series
SB-The French List
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857423740
SKU
V9780857423740
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About Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy is a poet, critic, and professor emeritus of comparative poetics at the Coll ge 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. Beverley Bie Brahic is an award-winning Canadian poet and translator. She has published two collections of poetry, and translations ... Read more
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