Prose
Prose

Prose

By Yves Bonnefoy, Edited by Stephen Romer, Edited by Anthony Rudolf, Edited by John Naughton

LITERARY COLLECTIONS

456 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: Paperback

Paperback, $40.00 (US $40.00) (CA $54.00)

Publication Date: June 2020

ISBN 9781784108113

Price: $40.00
 
 

Overview

Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016), a major poet, was equally a seminal essayist and thinker. This second and final volume of the Yves Bonnefoy Reader contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well as a generous selection of essays from all periods translated into English for the first time. Subjects include comparative French and English poetics, Shakespeare's theatre, the paintings of Piero della Francesca and Poussin, the sculpture of Bernini, Mozart's operas, a re-assessment of Rimbaud, the impact of photography on art, and much more. The range is broad, but the metaphysical challenge is the same: to affirm presence and finitude, against all forms of life-sapping conceptual thought. Language may have become suspect, but these essays affirm the 'project of hope' that was Bonnefoy's from the outset. A range of translators contribute, from the editors whose work on Bonnefoy is celebrated and of long standing, to Iain Bamforth, Michael Bishop, Hilary Davies, Jennie Feldman, Emily Grosholz, Mark Hutchinson, Steven Jaron, Viviane Lowe, Hoyt Rogers, John Taylor, and Ahren Warner.

Reviews

'His writings... are an important lighthouse on the contemporary cultural coastline.' - Emily Grosholz

Author Biography

Yves Bonnefoy, celebrated translator and critic, is widely considered the most important and influential French poet since World War II. Stephen Romer has published four full collections, including Yellow Studio (2008), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Anthony Rudolf is the author of literary criticism, autobiography, poetry, and translations of French poetry and Russian.
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