Yves Bonnefoy is the most important and influential French poet to have emerged since the Second World War. Poet, art critic, historian, translator (particularly of Shakespeare), specialist in the problem…

Between 1957 and 1988, the contemporary French poet Yves Bonnefoy translated Shakespeare’s Hamlet five times. This book is an in-depth analysis of these five translations and of their evolution, and…

The 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…

Yves Bonnefoy has enjoyed during the past two decades perhaps the most prolific and innovative period of his splendid lifework. This anthology of Bonnefoy’s work reflects the poet’s powerful engagement…

A collection of poems that echo each other, returning to and elaborating upon key images, thoughts, feelings, and people. Intriguing and enigmatic, it is a mixture of sonnet sequences and…

This book offers an outstanding retrospective collection of the master of 20th-century photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson.

In Earth and Mind : Dreaming, Writing, Being Michael Bishop examines very recent work by nine major French and Francophone writers : Bonnefoy, Risset, Stetie, Khoury-Ghata, Ben Jelloun, Velter, Bancquart…