Yves Bonnefoy, a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize, has received numerous international awards, including the Kafka Prize and the European Prize for Poetry. Hoyt Rogers translates literary works from the French, German, and Spanish.
“Mr. Bonnefoy [is] often lauded, and rightly so, as France's
greatest living poet.”—Micah Mattix, Wall Street Journal
"As the foreword to his lucid and responsible translations of Yves
Bonnefoy's late work reveals, Hoyt Rogers has mastered the grand
cumulus of ulterior translation, criticism, commentary, and
biographical circumstance which so formidably confronts, and
possibly daunts, the interpreter as well as the common reader, so
that indeed Second Simplicity is for seasoned practitioners of this
master not only a sort of precocious capstone of the still-rising
edifice of the Great Work, but for newcomers to Bonnefoy an
excellent, even an ideal, entrance to this writer’s vast
creation."—Richard Howard
"Yves Bonnefoy is one of the rare poets in the history of
literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic
excellence throughout an entire lifetime—now more than half a
century of work, and still counting. These recent poems, superbly
translated by Hoyt Rogers, attest to his enduring greatness."—Paul
Auster
"The final exemplar of a poetic legacy that begins with Baudelaire
and Mallarmé, Yves Bonnefoy is the last figure standing in a
monumental tradition that has shaped modern European literature.
This lovingly supple and authoritative presentation by Hoyt Rogers
of the rich, endlessly rewarding later phase of the great poet’s
work forms an invaluable contribution to our own poetry."—Jonathan
Galassi
"Hoyt Rogers displays extraordinary skill as a translator of this
oeuvre, given the precision and imaginative daring of his choices,
his metrical ear, and his multilayered knowledge of Yves Bonnefoy’s
work."—Marilyn
Hacker
"Second Simplicity is a magnificent collection by Yves Bonnefoy,
one of the world’s most important poets, in brilliant translations
by Hoyt Rogers. The poems are dramatic and startling, apparently
simple as falling snow and actually deep as life and time. Bonnefoy
searches for truths beyond language, each truth an adventure in
seeing the world anew. His vision is profound and yet bright with
promise, for, as he observes, 'Day is breaking, even beyond
time.'"—Grace Schulman
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