Together Still
Yves Bonnefoy, Hoyt Rogers
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Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN:
- 9781803092959
- Published:
- 06 Jul 2023
- Publisher:
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Dimensions:
- 80 pages - 8 x 5 x 1mm
- Availability:
- Available
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Yves Bonnefoy’s final poetic work, a collection of reflections about poetry, legacy, and life. The international community of letters mourned the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France’s greatest poets of the last half-century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and published a dozen major collections of poetry in verse and prose, several books of dream-like tales, and numerous studies of literature and art. His oeuvre has been translated into scores of languages, and he himself was a celebrated translator of Shakespeare, Yeats, Keats, and Leopardi. Together Still is his final poetic work, composed just months before his death. The book is nothing short of a literary testament, addressed to his wife, his daughter, his friends, and his readers throughout the world. In these pages, he ruminates on his legacy to future generations, his insistence on living in the present, his belief in the triumphant lessons of beauty, and, above all, his courageous identification of poetry with hope.
TOGETHER STILL URSA MAJOR What’s that Sound? And that, Again? Ursa Major Farther, Higher! Yes, Hello? You, Again! Star Seven THE BARE FOOT Inside, Outside? The Milky Way The Bare Foot, the Things Voices in the Treetops TOGETHER MUSIC AND MEMORY POEMS FOR TRUPHÉMUS The Room, the Garden A Café The Paintings Other Paintings Light, in an Empty Room BRIEFWEGE After the Fire Nisida Briefweg, in Warbende PERAMBULANS IN NOCTEM I In the Painter’s Studio The Translator’s Task The Walk in the Forest Hours in This Journal I Don’t Keep II Arms that Open At the Dawn of Time In the Other Trunk The Other Stairway The Low Door So Many Good Things! Perambulans in Noctem Bibliographic Notes In Memoriam: A Translator’s Note
Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) was a poet, critic, and professor of comparative poetics at the Collège de France. In addition to poetry and literary criticism, he published numerous works of art history and translated into French several of Shakespeare’s plays. Hoyt Rogers is the author of a poetry collection, Witnesses, and a volume of criticism, The Poetics of Inconstancy. He translates from French, German, and Spanish.