Together Still by Yves Bonnefoy and translated by Hoyt Rogers

This is poetry from France.

Together Still by Yves Bonnefoy translated by Hoyt Rogers is published by Seagull Books. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780857424242E12.

Together Still, by Yves Bonnefoy and translated by Hoyt Rogers from French, brings France French-language poetry into English through continuance, companionship, and Bonnefoy’s durable attention to presence. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for togetherness, stillness, aging, and the small faith of remaining with what is vanishing, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. 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. Together Still belongs in the translated poetry library because it deepens the library’s Bonnefoy shelf through a late mode of companionship and meditation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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