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Together Still

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Together Still by Yves Bonnefoy and Hoyt Rogers offers a reflective journey into the thoughts and memories of the esteemed French poet and philosopher. The book intricately weaves personal anecdotes, insightful reflections, and engaging conversations, painting an intimate portrait of Bonnefoy's experiences and intellectual legacy. It beautifully explores themes of memory, language, and existential contemplation.
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If you appreciate captivating reflections on life, love, and existence, this book might appeal to you. It's a beautiful exploration of memories and poetic contemplation, offering deep insights into the human experience.

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Yves Bonnefoy’s final poetic work, a collection of reflections about poetry, legacy, and life.

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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Together Still by Yves Bonnefoy, translated by Hoyt Rogers, is praised for its illuminating and deeply moving exploration of one of France’s major poets. The collection offers readers profound insights into the poet’s enduring impact over the last six decades, as highlighted by World Literature Today.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781803092959

Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 July 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 5.0mm

Height: 8.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 80

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.

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