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Yves Bonnefoy, France's premier poet of the last sixty years, is represented in full. We experience 'The horizon of a voice where stars are falling.' Translated and edited by Anthony Rudolf, John Naughton and Stephen Romer, this is the definitive reader for one of the greatest living French poets and translators.
Yves Bonnefoy, France's premier poet of the last sixty years, is represented in full. We experience 'The horizon of a voice where stars are falling.' Translated and edited by Anthony Rudolf, John Naughton and Stephen Romer, this is the definitive reader for one of the greatest living French poets and translators.
* Virtually a Collected Poems by the best loved, most influential French poet since World War II, a major translator of Shakespeare, Keats and Yeats * Winner of the Prix Goncourt, the Hudson Review's Bennett Award and the Franz Kafka Prize * Bonnefoy, who died in 2016 at the age of 93, was a great art critic, writing on Miro, Giacometti and bringing their work to bear on his own * English/French facing text edition
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, and other journals. He is the editor of Mythologies and author of In the Shadow's Light, The Act and the Place of Poetry, and The Lure and the Truth of Painting, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
"Bonnefoy conjures up life's eternal questions with each new poem." --Beverley Bie Brahic
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