Following on from 2017's celebrated Poems, this is a wide-ranging selection of Bonnefoy's essays on literature, art and life.
Ostensibly, the volume is about a female lover, Douve. Douve, though, is the French word for a moat, that uncrossable body... Læs mere
The definitive reader for one of the greatest living French poets and translators.
Yves Bonnefoy’s book of poems, Beginning and End of the Snow followed by Where the Arrow Falls, combines two meditations in which the poet’s thoughts and a landscape reflect each other.