About the Author

Yves Bonnefoy is a poet, critic, and professor emeritus of comparative poetics at the Coll ge de France. In addition to poetry and literary criticism, he has published numerous works of art history and translated into French several of Shakespeare's plays. Beverley Bie Brahic is an award-winning Canadian poet and translator. She has published two collections of poetry, and translations of French writers, including Apollinaire, Francis Ponge, and Helene Cixous.

Reviews

"A brief selection, in Brahic's translation, of Bonnefoy's poetry from the final years of his life. The poems take the form of dialogues between a man and a woman--perhaps Adam and Eve in exile from the garden. As always, they revel in the beauty of the physical world."-- "New Yorker"