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. One of Europe's finest contemporary poets, Jaccottet is
a writer of exacting attention. Through keen observations of the
natural world, of art, literature, music, and reflections on the
human condition, Jaccottet opens his readers' eyes to the
transcendent in everyday life. The Second Seedtime is a collection
of "things seen, things read, and things dreamed." The volume
continues the project Jaccottet began three decades earlier in his
first volume of notebooks, Seedtime. Here, again, he gathers
flashes of beauty dispersed around him like seeds that may blossom
into poems or moments of inspiration. He returns, insistently, to
such literary touchstones as Dante, Montaigne, Gongora, Goethe,
Kierkegaard, Holderlin, Michaux, Hopkins, Bronte, and Dickinson, as
well as musical greats including Bach, Monteverdi, Purcell, and
Schubert. The Second Seedtime is the vivid chronicle of one man's
passionate engagement with the life of the mind, the spirit, and
the natural world.
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