Widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation, Yves
Bonnefoy has wowed the literary world for decades with his diffuse
volumes. First published in France in 2008, The Anchor's Long Chain
is an indispensable addition to his oeuvre. Enriching Bonnefoy's
earlier work, the volume, translated by Beverley Bie Brahic, also
innovates, including an unprecedented sequence of nineteen sonnets.
These sonnets combine the strictness of the form with the freedom
to vary line length and create evocative fragments. Compressed,
emotionally powerful, and allusive, the poems are also
autobiographical-but only in glimpses. Throughout, Bonnefoy
conjures up life's eternal questions with each new poem. Longer,
discursive pieces, including the title poem's meditation on a
prehistoric stone circle and a legend about a ship, are also part
of this volume, as are a number of poetic prose pieces in which
Bonnefoy, like several of his great French predecessors, excels.
Long-time fans will find much to praise here, while newer readers
will quickly find themselves under the spell of Bonnefoy's
powerful, discursive poetry. Praise for Bonnefoy "Few exceptions of
contemporary French letters deserve the attention of the reading
public in America more than Bonnefoy...His writings are an
important lighthouse on the contemporary cultural
coastline."-Hudson Review "Bonnefoy's poems, prose, texts, and
penetrating essays have never ceased to stimulate both the writing
of French poetry and the discussion of what its deepest purpose
should be...He is one of the rare contemporary authors for whom
writing does not-or should not-conclude in utter despair, but
rather in the tendering of hope."- France Magazine
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