Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Bonnefoy, often acclaimed as France’s greatest living poet, has published seven major collections of verse, several books of tales, and numerous studies of literature and art. He succeeded Roland Barthes in the Chair of Comparative Poetics at the Collège de France. His work has been translated into scores of languages, and he is a celebrated translator of Shakespeare, Yeats, Keats, and Leopardi. Most recently, he has added to his long list of honors the European Prize for Poetry (2006) and the Kafka Prize (2007). He lives in Paris. “Naming the Divine” and “Leaving the Garden” belong to a genre Bonnefoy calls “récits en rêves” (“tales within dreams”)—an original form of fiction he has developed over the years. (updated 4/2009)

AGNI has published the following work by Yves Bonnefoy:

•from The Anchor's Long Chain
•The Dream’s Restlessness (translated from the French by Lisa Sapinkopf)
•The Snow (translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers)
•Summer Again (translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers)
•Summer Again (translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers)