The Anchor’s Long Chain
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- Contents
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Table of Contents

Contents
Translator's Acknowledgements
The Disorder
The Anchor's Long Chain (Ales Stenar)
America
Child's Play
Child's Play
The Long Name
The Trees
Mouth Agape
The Painter Whose Name is the Snow
The Divine Names
Passerby, Do You Want To Know?
Almost Nineteen Sonnets
Tomb of L.-B. Alberti
Tomb of Charles Baudelaire
'Facesti come quei che va di notte...'
The Mocking of Ceres
The Tree on Rue Descartes
The Invention of the Flute with Seven Pipes
Tomb of Giacomo Leopardi
Mahler, the Song of the Earth
Tomb of Stéphane Mallarmé
To the Author of 'The Night'
San Giorgio Maggiore
On Three Paintings by Poussin
Ulysses Sails Past Ithaca
San Biagio, at Montepulciano
A God
A Poet
A Stone
Tomb of Paul Verlaine
One of Wordsworth's Childhood Memories
Remarks on the Horizon
On Leaving the Garden: A Variation
Another Variation
The Disorder
The Anchor's Long Chain (Ales Stenar)
America
Child's Play
Child's Play
The Long Name
The Trees
Mouth Agape
The Painter Whose Name is the Snow
The Divine Names
Passerby, Do You Want To Know?
Almost Nineteen Sonnets
Tomb of L.-B. Alberti
Tomb of Charles Baudelaire
'Facesti come quei che va di notte...'
The Mocking of Ceres
The Tree on Rue Descartes
The Invention of the Flute with Seven Pipes
Tomb of Giacomo Leopardi
Mahler, the Song of the Earth
Tomb of Stéphane Mallarmé
To the Author of 'The Night'
San Giorgio Maggiore
On Three Paintings by Poussin
Ulysses Sails Past Ithaca
San Biagio, at Montepulciano
A God
A Poet
A Stone
Tomb of Paul Verlaine
One of Wordsworth's Childhood Memories
Remarks on the Horizon
On Leaving the Garden: A Variation
Another Variation
Review Quotes
Washington Independent Review of Books
“There is a folkloric feel to this writing. As if life is a fairytale. The tone is theistic, and there’s always a narrative within the surreal. Yes, all this is Bonnefoy. His prose pieces are sharp and clear while there are transgressions folding dreams within reality.”
Center for the Art of Translation: Northern California Book Award in Translation
Short Listed
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