{"title":"Yves Bonnefoy","description":"\u003cp\u003eYves Bonnefoy’s work bridges poetry and visual art, inviting readers into a contemplative exploration of language and perception. His collections, such as \u003cem\u003ePoetry and Photography\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Red Scarf\u003c\/em\u003e, blend vivid imagery with profound reflections, revealing the subtle interplay between reality and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection offers a rich journey through themes of memory, existence, and artistic expression. Whether through lyrical verse or prose, Bonnefoy's writing speaks to the enduring human experience, making it essential for those drawn to \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e and literary introspection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-red-scarf-by-yves-bonnefoy-9780857427380","title":"The Red Scarf","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn December 2015, six months before his death at the age of 93, Yves Bonnefoy concluded what was to be his last major text in prose, \u003ci\u003eL’écharpe rouge\u003c\/i\u003e, translated here as \u003ci\u003eThe Red Scarf\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this unique book, described by the poet as \"an anamnesis\"—a formal act of commemoration—Bonnefoy undertakes, at the end of his life, a profoundly moving exegesis of some fragments written in 1964. These fragments lead him back to an unspoken, lifelong anxiety: “My most troubling memory, when I was between ten and twelve years old, concerns my father, and my anxiety about his silence.” Bonnefoy offers an anatomy of his father’s silence, and of the melancholy that seemed to take hold some years into his marriage to the poet’s mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of this book is the ballad of Elie and Hélène, the poet’s parents. It is the story of their lives together in the Auvergne, and later in Tours, seen through the eyes of their son—the solitary boy’s intense but inchoate experience, reviewed through memories of the now elderly man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes \u003ci\u003eThe Red Scarf\u003c\/i\u003e indispensable is the intensely personal nature of the material, casting its slant light, a setting sun, on all that has gone before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853346656492,"sku":"9780857427380","price":46.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7199333482493.jpg?v=1759197667"},{"product_id":"the-red-scarf-followed-by-two-stages-and-additional-notes-by-yves-bonnefoy-9781803092942","title":"The Red Scarf – Followed by \"Two Stages\" and Additional Notes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn intensely personal and profoundly moving review of Bonnefoy’s childhood memories.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn December 2015, six months before his death at the age of 93, Yves Bonnefoy concluded what was to be his last major text in prose, \u003ci\u003eL’écharpe rouge\u003c\/i\u003e, translated here as \u003ci\u003eThe Red Scarf\u003c\/i\u003e. In this unique book, described by the poet as \"an anamnesis\"—a formal act of commemoration—Bonnefoy undertakes, at the end of his life, a profoundly moving exegesis of some fragments written in 1964. These fragments lead him back to an unspoken, lifelong anxiety: “My most troubling memory, when I was between ten and twelve years old, concerns my father, and my anxiety about his silence.” Bonnefoy offers an anatomy of his father’s silence, and of the melancholy that seemed to take hold some years into his marriage to the poet’s mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of this book is the ballad of Elie and Hélène, the poet’s parents. It is the story of their lives together in the Auvergne, and later in Tours, seen through the eyes of their son—the solitary boy’s intense but inchoate experience, reviewed through memories of the now elderly man. What makes \u003ci\u003eThe Red Scarf\u003c\/i\u003e indispensable is the intensely personal nature of the material, casting its slant light, a setting sun, on all that has gone before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853347541228,"sku":"9781803092942","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27029513482829.jpg?v=1759197700"},{"product_id":"together-still-by-yves-bonnefoy-9781803092959","title":"Together Still","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYves Bonnefoy’s final poetic work, a collection of reflections about poetry, legacy, and life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe international community of letters mourned the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France’s greatest poets of the last half-century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and published a dozen major collections of poetry in verse and prose, several books of dream-like tales, and numerous studies of literature and art. His \u003cem\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/em\u003e has been translated into scores of languages, and he himself was a celebrated translator of Shakespeare, Yeats, Keats, and Leopardi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTogether Still\u003c\/em\u003e is his final poetic work, composed just months before his death. The book is nothing short of a literary testament, addressed to his wife, his daughter, his friends, and his readers throughout the world. In these pages, he ruminates on his legacy to future generations, his insistence on living in the present, his belief in the triumphant lessons of beauty, and, above all, his courageous identification of poetry with hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855899152620,"sku":"9781803092959","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27029683482829.jpg?v=1759282362"},{"product_id":"rue-traversiere-by-yves-bonnefoy-9781803092713","title":"Rue Traversière","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA beautiful collection of poems from various styles and genres by France's foremost poet, Yves Bonnefoy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraised 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, \u003cem\u003eRue Traversière\u003c\/em\u003e, written in 1977, is one of his most harmonious works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427722838252,"sku":"9781803092713","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803092713.jpg?v=1774767403"},{"product_id":"the-wandering-life-followed-by-another-era-of-writing-by-yves-bonnefoy-9781803092409","title":"The Wandering Life – Followed by \"Another Era of Writing\"","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first English translation of Yves Bonnefoy’s account of his life as a traveller.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Wandering Life\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetic culmination of Yves Bonnefoy’s wanderings and characterises the final twenty-five years of his work. Bonnefoy was an ardent traveller throughout his life, and his journeys in foreign countries left a profound imprint on his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe time he spent in Italy, translating Shakespeare’s work in England, in universities in the United States, in India with Octavio Paz, and more, affected his poetry in discernible ways and inspired \u003cem\u003eThe Wandering Life\u003c\/em\u003e. Interweaving verse and prose—vignettes that range from a few lines in length to several pages—this volume is a fitting capstone to Bonnefoy’s oeuvre and appears in English translation for the first time to mark the centenary of Yves Bonnefoy’s birth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455820349676,"sku":"9781803092409","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803092409.jpg?v=1774800334"},{"product_id":"the-anchors-long-chain-by-yves-bonnefoy-9781803092935","title":"The Anchor’s Long Chain","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn experiment with the sonnet form by one of the foremost French poets of his generation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYves Bonnefoy has wowed the literary world for decades with his diffuse volumes. 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Though Bonnefoy recently celebrated his ninetieth birthday, many are calling these past two decades his most impressive yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis latest book of poetry and prose, \u003ci\u003eThe Digamma\u003c\/i\u003e, fits wonderfully into his impressive oeuvre, offering his signature style of simple but powerful language with fresh new grace. A key passage of the title piece of the book depicts the figures of Nicolas Poussin’s \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherds of Arcadia\u003c\/i\u003e, which Bonnefoy has identified as crucial to the artist’s evolution. The sustained reference to Poussin’s iconography serves to ground the text in the lost civilizations of antiquity. 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