Rue Traversiere by Yves Bonnefoy

Rue Traversiere by Yves Bonnefoy

A beautiful collection of poems from various styles and genres by France's foremost poet, Yves Bonnefoy. Praised by Paul Auster as “one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excellence throughout an entire lifetime,” Yves Bonnefoy is widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation. Proving that his prose is just as lyrical, Rue Traversière, written in 1977, is one of his most harmonious works. Each of the fifteen discrete or linked texts, whose lengths range from brief notations to long, intense, self-questioning pages, is a work of art in its own right: brief and richly suggestive as haiku, or long and intricately wrought in syntax and thought; and all are as rewarding in their sounds and rhythms, and their lightning flashes of insight, as any sonnet. “I can write all I like; I am also the person who looks at the map of the city of his childhood and doesn’t understand,” says the section that gives the book its title, as he revisits childhood cityscapes and explores the tricks memory plays on us. A mixture of genres—the prose poem, the personal essay, quasi-philosophical reflections on time, memory, and art—this is a book of both epigrammatic concision and dreamlike narratives that meander with the poet’s thought as he struggles to understand and express some of the undercurrents of human life. The book’s layered texts echo and elaborate on one another, as well as on aspects of Bonnefoy’s own poetics and thought.

“Four decades ago, the French poet Bonnefoy, wrote two poems about Rue TraversièreNow, these evocative works about ‘a certain cross-street whose name was Cross Street’ have emerged in a lush and limpid English-language rendering by Beverley Bie Brahic.” -- Robert Neuwirth * Grand Hotel Abyss *

Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) is recognized as the greatest French poet of the past fifty years. By the time of his death,  he had published eleven major collections of poetry in verse and prose, several books of tales, and numerous studies of literature and art. Beverley Bie Brahic is an award-winning poet and translator. A Canadian, she lives in Paris and Stanford, California.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9781803092713
ISBN 10	1803092718
Titel	Rue Traversiere
Autor	Yves Bonnefoy
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Seagull Books London Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-07-06
Seitenanzahl	88
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.