Wandering Life – Followed by "Another Era of Writing"

Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) was a renowned French poet, critic, and professor emeritus of comparative poetics at Collège de France, Paris. He received several major international awards for his work, including the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca and the Franz Kafka Prize. In addition to poetry and literary criticism, he published numerous works on art history and translated into French several of Shakespeare’s plays. Hoyt Rogers is the author of a poetry collection, Witnesses, and a volume of criticism, The Poetics of Inconstancy. He translates French, German, and Spanish.

• THE WANDERING LIFE‘READ THE BOOK!’THE WANDERING LIFEThe Colour AlchemistThe Wandering LifeAll Morning in the CityThe Northern FireStrabo the GeographerGlaucus the GodAs Far as I Know YouThe ClockSugarfootImpressions at SunsetHuge Red RocksLandscape with the Flight into EgyptAll the Gold in the WorldTHE GRAPES OF ZEUXISThe Grapes of ZeuxisThe DogsThe Top of The WorldNightThe Task of Non-ExistenceThe Blind ManThe IncisionThe BookThey Spoke to MeTHE GRAPES OF ZEUXIS AGAINIncompletableThe Painter’s DespairThe MuseumNocturnal JusticeHomageThe Great ImageThe CrucifixThe Grapes of Zeuxis AgainShe Who Invented PaintingLAST GRAPES OF ZEUXISI. Zeuxis, despite the birdsII. He caught his breathIII. And what a surprise it wasIV. Not even those weighty clustersV. Now, he paints in peaceVI. Long, long hoursVII. Ah, what’s happened?VIII. Zeuxis wanders in the countrysideIX. It’s something akin to a puddleFROM WIND AND SMOKEA STONETWO MUSICIANS, THREE PERHAPSTwo Musicians, Three PerhapsThree Memories of the JourneyTwo Sentences, and OthersHands That Take Hold of HisZeuxis: The Self-PortraitBECKETT’S DINGHYANOTHER ERA OF WRITING‘Bonnefoy the Voyager: An Afterword’ by Hoyt Rogers