John Taylor
“What Comes from the Night’ testifies to John Taylor’s complex bond with nature, a generous alliance that includes moments of introspection and melancholy.
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Franca Mancinelli’s poetry refreshingly interweaves personal, historical, cultural, and ecological themes
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Deeply indebted to her relationship to persons and places, José-Flore Tappy uses poetry as a way to revisit them, honoring the absent through poems co-created by memory and imagination.
Read MoreBeautifully produced by Seagull Books, The Pilgrim’s Bowl is an invaluable introduction to both painter and poet.
Read MoreJohn Taylor introduces readers to an amazing array of sensibilities and life histories in a babel of languages from an atlas of nations.
Read MoreFor French writer Pierre-Albert Jourdan, paradox and its close kin aphorism were ways to approach the ineffable, the infinite, the immanent, and above all the state of unity between self and world that he devotedly, passionately sought.
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Translator Interview: John Taylor on Philippe Jaccottet
“We have entered an age of unequivocal partisan discourse, of linguistic robotization, of tiny symbols standing for complex emotions. In total contrast to this, Philippe Jaccottet’s writing constantly shows nuance, attentiveness, perseverance, circumspection, and a genuine quest for essential truths.”
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