Openwork
Subtitle: poetry and prose
By: André du Bouchet ; selected, translated, and presented by Paul Auster and Hoyt Rogers
Contributors: Auster, Paul, 1947- translator; Rogers, Hoyt, translator
Series: Margellos world republic of letters book; Margellos world republic of letters book
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300197631
Work titles: Works
Description: "André du Bouchet, a great innovator of twentieth-century letters, has yet to be fully recognized by a wide circle of international readers. This inviting volume sets out to remedy the oversight, introducing a selection of du Bouchet's poetry and prose to English- language readers through the brilliant translations of Paul Auster and Hoyt Rogers. Openwork showcases pieces from the author's entire trajectory, beginning with little-known pieces from the 1950s, followed by major poems from the 1960s, and concluding with works written or rewritten in the poet's later decades. Throughout his life, du Bouchet devoted himself to long walks in his beloved French countryside, jotting down entries in notebooks as he rambled. These notebooks-more than one hundred all together-have emerged as signal works in their own right, and their musings are well represented in this anthology"--
Notes: Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references.