Andre Du Bouchet

Download or read book André Du Bouchet written by Emma Wagstaff and published by Collection Monographique Rodop. This book was released on 2020 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In André du Bouchet: Poetic Forms of Attention, Emma Wagstaff provides the first book-length study in English of this major poet of the second half of the twentieth century. She shows how Du Bouchet's rigorous and innovative creative and critical writing advances our understanding of attention. Du Bouchet is known as a post-war poet of the natural world and the space of the page. Far from just a solitary writer, however, he engaged with others through his work as editor, critic, and translator, and his involvement in the protests of May 1968. Emma Wagstaff shows how his writing demonstrates nuanced attention to language, time, nature, and art, and incites a 'slow' response on the part of the reader"--