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Philippe Jaccottet

Under Clouded Skies with Beauregard

Pensées sous les nuages / Beauregard

Philippe Jaccottet

TRANSLATED BY DAVID CONSTANTINE & MARK TREHARNE

Publication Date : 27 Jan 1994

ISBN: 9781852242596

Pages: 65
Size :216 x 138mm
Rights: World

Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation

French-English bilingual edition

Philippe Jaccottet ’s poetry is meditative, immediate and sensuous. It is rooted in the Drôme region of south-east France, which gives it a rich sense of place. This book brings together his reflections on landscape in the prose pieces of Beauregard (1980) and in the poems of Under Clouded Skies (1983), two thematically linked collections which are remarkable for their lyrical restraint and quiet power.

Jaccottet’s poetry is largely grounded in landscape and the visual world, pursuing an anxious and persistent questioning of natural signs, meticulously conveyed in a syntax of great inventiveness. His work is animated by a fascination with the visible world from which he translates visual objects into verbal images and ultimately into figures of language. His poems are highly attentive, pushing the eye beyond what it sees, enacting a rich hesitation between meaning conferred and meaning withheld.

'Jaccottet writes of specific landscapes, particularly of the Drôme area of South [East] France but, like Norman Nicholson writing from Millom in Cumbria, gives it a universal resonance, seeing the world in the turn of the seasons on local stone, the changing light of a particular corner of sky.' - Ian McMillan, on why he chose Under Clouded Skies for The North magazine's feature Top 30 Outstanding Books from the Last 30 Years

Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets: 5

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