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Ursa Major (Hardcover)
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Ursa Major (Hardcover)
Series: The French List
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Loot Price R464
Discovery Miles 4 640
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Yves Bonnefoy is one of the greatest living voices of contemporary
French poetry. In this, his sixth book published by Seagull Books,
he explores in profound new ways the mysteries of human
consciousness. Readers find snatches of conversations overheard,
dropped without any possible conclusion each pregnant with
half-hidden, half-visible meaning. Limpid, punctuated with
silences, the poems of Ursa Major are like stones picked up, turned
over and set back down on the edge of life."Countless voices
traverse us; endless, almost, as the meanders of dreams or the
starry scintillations of summer nights. Only listen, and a few
words rise from the murmur, referring to precise things, making
allusions one would like to understand, offering opinions perhaps
worth mulling over." With these words Bonnefoy introduces the
collection, newly available in English by the master translator
Beverly Bie Brahic. This deeply moving sequence of prose poems
invites readers to attend to the multitudinous voices that carry on
their conversations within us, to trust them "just as on summer
nights we would lie down in the grass of the meadow, behind our
houses, to go forth among the millions of stars with a feeling of
falling."
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