{"product_id":"truinas-april-21-2001-9780692426449","title":"Truinas: April 21, 2001","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I have now given shape, though clumsily--so clumsily that, in the past, I would not have divulged them like this--to these pages begun immediately after the 21st of April, 2001, and dragged around like a burden for three years, the burden of an unsatisfactory draft, of an unfulfilled promise. Now published, despite everything, because of the impulse of friendship that they originally signified; and because of what they wanted to say and say again, before I will assuredly no longer be able to do so.'--Philippe Jaccottet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilippe Jaccottet is the prize-winning, Swiss-born French poet who, in 2014, became only the third poet (after Ren  Char and St. John Perse) to enter Gallimard's \u003cem\u003ePl iade\u003c\/em\u003e list while still living and working. \"Truinas, April 21, 2001\" is Jaccottet's meditation on his long friendship with another essential French poet, Andr  du Bouchet (1924-2001), provoked by Du Bouchet's funeral -- 'an event that evokes memories of their first meeting a half-century earlier, their literary affinities (notably their common literary admiration for the poetry of Friedrich H lderlin), the particularly vivid perceptions of the natural surroundings of Du Bouchet's house in the south of France, and, not least, the doubts--scruples--about the very possibility of writing truly and honestly about death.' -- John Taylor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philippe Jaccottet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Odd Volumes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692426449\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Odd Volumes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40096950747251,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ad491c2e-793e-4d1a-a936-52ddb7e03337.jpg?v=1652970067","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/truinas-april-21-2001-9780692426449","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}