Second Seedtime by Philippe Jaccottet and translated by Tess Lewis

This is poetry from Switzerland.

Second Seedtime by Philippe Jaccottet translated by Tess Lewis is published by University of Chicago Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780857424341E12.

Second Seedtime, by Philippe Jaccottet and translated by Tess Lewis from French, brings Swiss French-language poetry into English through late Jaccottet meditation, seasonal return, and the quiet discipline of looking again after the first harvest has passed. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem begins making its own weather. I would read it for seedtime, weather, perception, and the kind of humility that lets attention become a spiritual practice, not as a fixed lesson about a nation, period, or school. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Second Seedtime belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers Swiss French poetry as a field of patience rather than a monument of certainty.

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