From the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has been considered the most important and influential French poet since World War II. A prolific writer, critic, and translator, Bonnefoy continues to compose groundbreaking new work sixt...

Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminalessayist and thinker. This second and final volume of the "Yves Bonnefoy Reader", contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well asa generous selection of essays from all pe...

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 often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and publish...