Product Description: This work identifies a distinctive poetics of inconsistency that came to the fore at the end of the 16th century and pervaded the love verse of the age. The book takes as its departure the poet Etienne Durand, identifying the theme of universal change as a hallmark of his contemporaries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A detailed and thorough glimpse into the life of one of the most famous composers and musicians of all time dispels numerous myths surrounding Bach and presents the truth about his motives and aspirations, providing music lovers with a fascinating new perspective into the mind of a musical genius. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

A dual-language volume of poetry by the noted French contemporary writer provides insight into the range of his creations, in an edition that includes a preface by a renowned poet and critic as well as an essay by the translator that offers additional insight into the writer's body of work.

As the First World War ravages Europe, the daily life of a small French town near the front is little disturbed by the war, until the deaths of three innocents--a charming schoolmistress who takes her own life, the wife of a local police officer who dies in childbirth, and a young girl, found murdered--turn the town upside down Reprint.

Yves Bonnefoy, who will soon attain the age of ninety, has gratified his readers during the past two decades with the most prolific and innovative period of his splendid lifework. This volume presents in English and French an inviting array of his recent writings, carefully selected for their literary quality as well as their broad appeal. It features several works never published before and many that have never been translated into English. The first anthology of Bonnefoy's work to appear since 1995, this collection reflects the poet's powerful engagement with the New England landscape; its quiet woods and fields have helped to shape to the pared-down aesthetic of his recent years. The book is the first to showcase not only the poetry for which Bonnefoy is justly renowned but also his inventive compositions in prose. Appropriately, the book alternates more traditional verse with freer forms, just as the author has done in several major works of the past twenty years; that symbiotic approach is one of the hallmarks of this latter phase of his art. Superbly translated by Hoyt Rogers, the collection is organized chronologically, revealing clearly how the poet continues to extend and refine his scope and style. Rogers provides a masterly introduction in which he analyzes aspects of Bonnefoy's recent writings and the "second simplicity" that characterizes his late work.

Product Description: Heralded as one of France’s greatest poets, Yves Bonnefoy has been dazzling readers since the publication of his first book in 1953. He remains influential and relevant, continuing to compose groundbreaking new work. Though Bonnefoy recently celebrated his ninetieth birthday, many are calling these past two decades his most impressive yet...read more

Product Description: A bestseller in France and winner of the Prix Renaudot, Grey Souls is a mesmerising and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I. The placid daily life of a small town near the front seems impervious to the nearby pounding of artillery fire and the parade of wounded strangers passing through its streets...read more