Canadian Bookworm: The Curved Planks

Monday, 28 March 2011

The Curved Planks

Finished March 28
The Curved Planks by Yves Bonnefoy, translated by Hoyt Rogers
This book of poetry, translated from the French, is my first experience with Yves Bonnefoy. The poems evoke nature and feeling and have wonderful turns of phrase. I loved the line "Our mouths besotted / With the smell of grass." Another one that caught me was "Memories passed through their sleep / Like boats in the fog, stoking their fires / Before they head upstream."
I took my time over this collection, to savor it and enjoy the word, put together so elegantly. A wonderful collection of poems.

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Monday, 28 March 2011

The Curved Planks

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