John Scotus Eriugena at Laon and Other Poems by Jacques Darras and translated by Richard Sieburth

This is poetry from France.

John Scotus Eriugena at Laon and Other Poems by Jacques Darras translated by Richard Sieburth is published by World Poetry Books. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2022.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781954218048E12.

John Scotus Eriugena at Laon and Other Poems, by Jacques Darras and translated by Richard Sieburth, sounds like a learned, wandering, historically alert book in the best sense. The title invokes the medieval philosopher and theologian John Scotus Eriugena, but the “and other poems” keeps the volume from becoming a single historical exercise. Darras’s French poetry often moves through geography, European history, rivers, languages, and cultural memory, and Sieburth’s translation is well suited to that breadth. I would read this book for its intellectual travel, the way a poem can move through places and centuries without becoming a lecture. The pleasure is in hearing history think aloud, with the lyric as its road.

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