Together Still (The French List) - Hardcover

Bonnefoy, Yves

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857424246 ISBN 13: 9780857424242

Publisher: Seagull Books, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Review

"Undoubtedly one of the major French poets of the last six decades. . . . Illuminating and deeply moving." (World Literature Today)

About this edition

• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0857424246
• ISBN 13: 9780857424242
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80