Yves Bonnefoy, Author, John Naughton, Translator University of Chicago Press $34 (190p) ISBN 978-0-226-06447-5
In the moving poem ``The Farewell,'' Bonnefoy asks a loved one if, ``in the language called poetry / There is only one word for designating / The morning and the evening sun.'' The poet himself answers in the affirmative yet proceeds to expand his...
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Yves Bonnefoy, Author, Anthony Rudolf, Editor, John Naughton, Editor University of Chicago Press $59 (252p) ISBN 978-0-226-06458-1
One of the most esteemed of contemporary French poets, Bonnefoy keeps his highly philosophical poetry tangible through a detailed sense of wonder at the universe, as in his famous early poem, ``Place of the Salamander'': ``How I love that which...
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Yves Bonnefoy, Author, Anthony Rudolf, Editor, John Naughton, Editor University of Chicago Press $29 (252p) ISBN 978-0-226-06460-4
One of the most esteemed of contemporary French poets, Bonnefoy keeps his highly philosophical poetry tangible through a detailed sense of wonder at the universe, as in his famous early poem, ``Place of the Salamander'': ``How I love that which...
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Yves Bonnefoy, Author, Hoyt Rogers, Translator, Richard Howard, Foreword by , trans. from the French by Hoyt Rogers. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (229p) ISBN 978-0-374-18494-0
The first poetic associations of Bonnefoy, an octogenarian French poet often mentioned in the same breath as Paul Valéry, were with the French surrealists, but he has long since been a maverick of French verse, crafting stanzas as simple as...
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