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On the Motion & Immobility of Douve: Du mouvement et de l'immobilite de Douve - Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets Bilingual ‘facing page’ edition
Yves Bonnefoy
On the Motion & Immobility of Douve: Du mouvement et de l'immobilite de Douve - Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets Bilingual ‘facing page’ edition
Yves Bonnefoy
Ostensibly, the volume is about a female lover, Douve. Douve, though, is the French word for a moat, that uncrossable body which separates us from safety and from danger. With this undercurrent at work we read the poems as if they are about the divide between us and death as much as they are about the divide between us and the untouchable reality o
192 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 22, 1992 |
ISBN13 | 9781852241322 |
Publishers | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
Pages | 192 |
Dimensions | 216 × 140 × 13 mm · 256 g |
Language | English |
Translator | Kinnell, Galway |
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