Under Clouded Skies / Beauregard : Pensees sous les nuages / Beauregard Paperback / softback
by Philippe Jaccottet
Part of the Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets series
Paperback / softback
Description
Philippe Jaccottet’s poetry is meditative, immediate and sensuous.
It is rooted in the Drôme region of south-east France, which gives it a rich sense of place.
This book brings together his re?ections on landscape in the prose pieces of Beauregard (1980) and in the poems of Under Clouded Skies (1983), two thematically linked collections which are remarkable for their lyrical restraint and quiet power. Jaccottet’s poetry is largely grounded in landscape and the visual world, pursuing an anxious and persistent questioning of natural signs, meticulously conveyed in a syntax of great inventiveness.
His work is animated by a fascination with the visible world from which he translates visual objects into verbal images and ultimately into figures of language.
His poems are highly attentive, pushing the eye beyond what it sees, enacting a rich hesitation between meaning conferred and meaning withheld. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. French-English bilingual edition.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Publication Date:27/01/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9781852242596
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Publication Date:27/01/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9781852242596
