{"product_id":"rue-traversiere","title":"Rue Traversière","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beautiful collection of poems from various styles and genres by France's foremost poet, Yves Bonnefoy.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Praised by Paul Auster as \"one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excellence throughout an entire lifetime,\" Yves Bonnefoy is widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation. Proving that his prose is just as lyrical, \u003ci\u003eRue Traversière\u003c\/i\u003e, written in 1977, is one of his most harmonious works. Each of the fifteen discrete or linked texts, whose lengths range from brief notations to long, intense, self-questioning pages, is a work of art in its own right: brief and richly suggestive as haiku, or long and intricately wrought in syntax and thought; and all are as rewarding in their sounds and rhythms, and their lightning flashes of insight, as any sonnet. \"I can write all I like; I am also the person who looks at the map of the city of his childhood and doesn't understand,\" says the section that gives the book its title, as he revisits childhood cityscapes and explores the tricks memory plays on us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A mixture of genres--the prose poem, the personal essay, quasi-philosophical reflections on time, memory, and art--this is a book of both epigrammatic concision and dreamlike narratives that meander with the poet's thought as he struggles to understand and express some of the undercurrents of human life. The book's layered texts echo and elaborate on one another, as well as on aspects of Bonnefoy's own poetics and thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10362384\"\u003eYves Bonnefoy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 4.88w x 0.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803092713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1803092718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005030\"\u003eEuropean | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT004150\"\u003eEuropean | French\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYves Bonnefoy\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, critic, and professor emeritus of comparative poetics at the Collège de France. In addition to poetry and literary criticism, he has published numerous works of art history and translated into French several of Shakespeare's plays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeverley Bie Brahic \u003c\/b\u003eis an award-winning poet and translator. A Canadian, she lives in Paris and Stanford, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44691269320941,"sku":"9781803092713","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_cb478b8f-32dc-41bc-874c-e0a2e79f9a60.jpg?v=1703724467","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/rue-traversiere","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}