Since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe
Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the
heart of our material world in his essential, elemental poetry. As
one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters,
Jaccottet has published more than a dozen books of poetry and
criticism, but none are widely available in English. Seedtime -
Jaccottet's notebooks - is an especially good introduction to this
leading francophone Swiss author, containing the poet's
observations of the natural world and his reflections on
literature, art, music, and the human condition. In these
explorations, he returns again and again to the fundamental,
focusing his prodigious talents on describing the exact shade of
light on a meadow, the sound of running water, the color of cherry
and almond blossoms, or the cry of a bird in the stillness before
dawn. In this translation by Tess Lewis, English readers will
finally be able to join this poet as we follow in his footsteps of
fifty years ago and find the still-viable seeds of his delicate and
tenacious verse.
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