yves bonnefoy – European Literature Network

Jul 16^th

French Book Week: POEMS by Yves Bonnefoy, translated by Anthony Rudolf, John Naughton & Stephen Romer

leopardi’s tomb So many fingers have been singed, Sifting ashes in the Phoenix-nest; But he could harvest all this light Only by assenting to all this night. And his trusting wor

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Jul 16^th

French Book Week: Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), regarded as France’s greatest poet of the last fifty years, was the author of many volumes of poetry and poetic prose, and numerous books of essay

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