Phlippe Jaccottet

Writers’ notebooks sometimes prove more revelatory than diaries or intimate journals. At first, they might appear to be rag-and-bone shops of ideas, insights, hesitations, doubts, and records of things seen, heard, read, dreamt. But eventually, they coalesce into a labyrinthine map of the creative process. Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet has faithfully kept notebooks for many decades, and the selections that...